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Armenia's maternal mortality rate falls in past five years
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August 25, 2012 | 17:03
YEREVAN. - A total of 15, 13, 4 and 3 cases of maternal mortality were
recorded in Armenia in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. And
four such cases have been registered in the first seven months of the
current year.
The primary causes of maternal mortality in Armenia likewise used to
be obstetrical bleeding, hyperintense interruption of pregnancy,
post-birth complications, and abortions, Pastinfo News Agency informs.
In the maternal mortalities recorded in the past five years, however,
the causes that are not directly related to pregnancy and childbirth
have become more frequent, and their regularity exceeds the major
causes of respective deaths in the previous years.
Five of the forty women - that is, 12.5 percent - who lost their lives
from 2008 to 2012 and as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, and
post-birth complications in Armenia, had died at home. And such cases
of death are primarily conditioned on extragenital diseases, or
unforeseen causes during short-term pregnancies, or the post-birth
period.
In the case of the women who died as a result of extragenital
diseases, the pregnancies were up to six-seven weeks, and the
pregnancy was discovered only during autopsy.
But the sole consolation under this truly dire situation is the fact
that the maternal mortality rate in Armenia is falling in the past
five years.
news.am
August 25, 2012 | 17:03
YEREVAN. - A total of 15, 13, 4 and 3 cases of maternal mortality were
recorded in Armenia in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. And
four such cases have been registered in the first seven months of the
current year.
The primary causes of maternal mortality in Armenia likewise used to
be obstetrical bleeding, hyperintense interruption of pregnancy,
post-birth complications, and abortions, Pastinfo News Agency informs.
In the maternal mortalities recorded in the past five years, however,
the causes that are not directly related to pregnancy and childbirth
have become more frequent, and their regularity exceeds the major
causes of respective deaths in the previous years.
Five of the forty women - that is, 12.5 percent - who lost their lives
from 2008 to 2012 and as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, and
post-birth complications in Armenia, had died at home. And such cases
of death are primarily conditioned on extragenital diseases, or
unforeseen causes during short-term pregnancies, or the post-birth
period.
In the case of the women who died as a result of extragenital
diseases, the pregnancies were up to six-seven weeks, and the
pregnancy was discovered only during autopsy.
But the sole consolation under this truly dire situation is the fact
that the maternal mortality rate in Armenia is falling in the past
five years.