Factors Responsible for Sustained High Levels of Maternal Mortality in Kaduna, Nigeria
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Factors, Responsible, Sustain, maternal, mortalityAbstract
Background; Asserted that Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate is among the worst in the world, the situation is much worse within the northern parts of the country, where the MMR is estimated to be over 1000 deaths per 100,000 live births. A mid-year report issued by Kaduna State The variables that influence or partially affects maternal mortality rate includes; Delay in making decision to seek maternal health care; Delay in receiving skilled pregnancy care when the woman gets to the health facility, haemorrhage, anaemia, sepsis, eclampsia, ineffective used of essential drugs despite being provided to government facilities, lack of functional blood banking system due to irregular supply of electricity, Non-functional ambulances, no Manual Vacuum Aspiration(MVA) kits, for the management of incomplete abortions. This paper therefore, seeks to identify and determine factors influencing sustain high level maternal mortality in Kaduna State, Nigeria and the findings from this study provided insight into how these communities could be assisted to reduce the rate of maternal morbidity and mortality.
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