Trend and Causes of Maternal Mortality in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital: A 5-year Retrospective Study (2010-2014) at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria | Zendy

Thomas Agan | Zendy; Emmanuel Monjok | Zendy; Ubong Akpan | Zendy; Ogban Omoronyia | Zendy; JE Ekabua | Zendy

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Trend and Causes of Maternal Mortality in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital: A 5-year Retrospective Study (2010-2014) at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria

Author(s) -

Thomas Agan,

Emmanuel Monjok,

Ubong Akpan,

Ogban Omoronyia,

JE Ekabua

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

open access macedonian journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288

H-Index - 17

ISSN - 1857-9655

DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2018.220

Subject(s) - medicine , health facility , retrospective cohort study , pregnancy , attendance , pediatrics , maternal death , obstetrics , population , environmental health , health services , surgery , biology , economic growth , economics , genetics

Maternal mortality ratios (MMR) are still unacceptably high in many low-income countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa. MMR had been reported to have improved from an initial 3,026 per 100,000 live births in 1999 to 941 in 2009, at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar, a tertiary health facility in Nigeria. Post-partum haemorrhage and hypertensive diseases of pregnancy have been the common causes of maternal deaths in the facility.

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