Over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth, which is equivalent to one death every seven seconds, according to a new report from the World Health Organization.
The report shows that over 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or the first weeks after birth, which is equivalent to one death every seven seconds.
These deaths are mostly from"preventable or treatable causes if proper care was available," the United Nations agency added in"Pregnant women and newborns continue to die at unacceptably high rates worldwide, and the COVID-19 pandemic has created further setbacks to providing them with the healthcare they need," Dr. Anshu Banerjee, director of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and ageing at WHO, said in the release.
In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization points to rising poverty and worsening humanitarian crises as added pressures to already stretched health systems.290,000 maternal deaths each year"If we wish to see different results, we must do things differently," Banerjee says."More and smarter investments in primary healthcare are needed now so that every woman and baby - no matter where they live - has the best chance of health and survival.
In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,200 U.S. women died during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, released in March by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a six-decade high. That number fell to an estimated 733 in 2022, according to preliminary numbers.
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