{"id":286497,"date":"2017-01-20T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286497"},"modified":"2017-01-20T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:00:53","slug":"send-ghana-bemoans-ghanas-maternal-mortality-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/send-ghana-bemoans-ghanas-maternal-mortality-ratio\/","title":{"rendered":"SEND-Ghana bemoans Ghana\u2019s maternal mortality ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"
SEND-Ghana says much is desired of policy makers in the area of improving maternal health delivery as a national priority.<\/p>\n
The organization maintains that Ghana is still far behind in terms of combating maternal mortality rate recorded especially in the three regions of the north.<\/p>\n
Though the organization\u2019s has made some modest achievements through its three years Improving Maternal Health Service Delivery through Participatory Governance project dubbed \u201cIMPROVE,\u201d it is expected that government and its development partners will speed up interventions aimed at eradicating the menace.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n This was brought to the fore at the IMPROVE project\u2019s close-out conference and awards event held in Tamale on the theme, \u201cContributing to the reduction of maternal mortality in Ghana\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Beatrice Heymann, Principal Medical Officer of the Ghana Health Service admitted that the magnitude of maternal mortality remained awful.<\/p>\n \u201cOur district health data base recorded 941 maternal deaths in 2014, 926 in 2015 and 994 in 2016,\u201d she disclosed.<\/p>\n She raised concern about most pregnant women apathy towards visiting health facilities for safe delivery and antenatal.<\/p>\n