Magnitude of Maternal Health
problem in Ethiopia
Maternal mortality is one of the health indicator which shows the burden
of disease and death; the greatest differential between developing and
developed countries. More than 150 million women become pregnant in developing
countries each year and an estimated 500, 000 of them die from pregnancy
related causes. Other than their health problems most women in the developing
countries lack access to modern health care services and increase the magnitude
of death from preventable problems. Lack of access to modern health care
services has great impact on increasing maternal death. Most pregnant women do
not receive antenatal care; deliver with out the assistance of trained health
workers etc. The life time risk of death as a result of pregnancy or child
birth is estimated at one in twenty – three for women in Africa, compared to
about one in 10,000 for women in Northern Europe 75% of Maternal morbidity and
mortality related to pregnancy and child birth are due to five obstetric
causes.
Hemorrhage, sepsis (infection), toxemia obstructed labor and
complications from unsafe abortion.
As Ethiopia is one of the developing countries with inadequate
facilities and resources having highest maternal morbidity and mortality and
poor coverage of maternal is estimated to be 1000/100,000 live birth. In
Ethiopia women get antenatal care are around 905, 283 and overall the national
antenatal care coverage in 34.7%. Among this pregnant woman only 259,083 are
attended institutional delivery making the national coverage of 10%. Unwanted
and unplanned pregnancies are important determinants of maternal in health. So
from 1,769,171 of women child bearing age expected to use family planning
635,105 of them use family planning and the national coverage is only
18.7%.Abortion, HIV/AIDS and STIs are also another conditions that increase
maternal morbidity and mortality. These all indicated that the maternal health
care is too less in Ethiopia.
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