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Safe motherhood: an insight into maternal mortality in the developing world.


 It is a tragic fact that in the very act of giving birth, of achieving motherhood, nearly half a million women die every year worldwide. This article presents an insight into maternal mortality in developing countries. Evidence shows that women who escape death survive with serious ill health and a host of pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications. Unfortunately, women from developing countries face the gravest risks. These women die of neglect and ignorance and inaccessibility to required health services. In view of the above, the UN International Children's Emergency Fund and the WHO, in collaboration with many countries, took the initiative in bringing down the infant mortality rate around the world, more significantly in the developing world. Also, the WHO reported 585,000 maternal deaths worldwide in 1990, only 4000 of which occurred in developed countries. Causes of these deaths are deeply rooted within the socioeconomic milieu in which people live. Therefore, this problem calls for a long-term strategy.
