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Suggestions for reducing maternal mortality

KOCHI: A Confidential Review of Maternal Deaths by the Kerala Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has pointed out that there is a lack of emergency facilities in the labour room to deal with clinical situations such as acute postpartum collapse due to haemorrhage, which has been cited as the most common cause of maternal deaths in the State.

The study called “Why Mothers Die 2004-05” by the Maternal Foetal Medicine Committee of the Kerala Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, states that in many cases an alternative approach would have helped to avoid the tragedy.

The committee said that standardisation of facilities and accreditation is a possible measure to check the lapses.

A government directive to standardise delivery centres, as part of the National Rural Health Mission, should be used as a tool to make it effective that will reduce the maternal mortality rate of 26 deaths per lakh deliveries.

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