Why Maternal Deaths Remain Alarmingly High In Nigeria – UUTH CMD

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Prof. Ememabasi Bassey, has expressed concern over high rate of maternal deaths in Nigeria, and identified haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis, obstructed labour and complications of unsafe abortion among the leading direct causes of maternal deaths in Nigeria.
Bassey recalled that an estimated 74,559 Nigerian women who died from pregnancy-related causes in 2023, noting that the alarm figure represented about 204 deaths daily, while the maternal mortality ratio remains close to 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births, adding that an estimated maternal mortality ratio of 774 per 100,000 live births a...