Non-government organisations working in the field women-health on Tuesday publishing a survey report revealed that death-number of pregnant women in delivering child not properly reflected in government statistical report as death-registration yet to be standardised. Present maternal mortality ratio of 194 per lakhs was fixed by comparing with population of the area and crude birth rate and counted less to show progress in achieving target of 143 deaths per lakh within 2015 under Millennium Development Goal for Bangladesh, they added.
Sankapa Trust and women health rights alliance of Napokkho, revealed this in a jointly organised press conference at Barisal NGO Development Network on occasion of the International Women Health Day 2013.
Syed Nuhu Ul Alam Nabin, project officer Naripakkho readout the report before the journalists explained by Mirza SI Khaled, executive director, Sankalpa Trust, Ranjit Datta of BNDN, Sadhana Bepari, Shuvangkar Chakraborty, NGO activists.
In the report it was said that after checking reports of 127 public health service providers in 111 unions under 14 upazilas of 5 districts in Barisal division they found that only 45 out of 123 deaths of pregnant women during delivery were included in national statistics and rest 88 (63.41 percent) deaths were ignored to be included there.
The searching was conducted by checking the death registers of 2011 in Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in divisional level , 2 general hospitals and 2 mother-child welfare centers of Barguna and Patuakhali districts, 11 upazila health complexes and 111 union parishad, union health and family welfare centre under Barisal, Barguna, Jhalakathi Patuakhali and Pirojpur districts.
During the searches, they found that 45 deaths of pregnant women during delivering child were recorded at the death register of SBMCH and 40 of them included in the national statistics.
However more 5 deaths recorded at upazila level family planning office also included in national statistics.
Other 7 deaths were recorded only at district general hospitals, 57 at union parishad and 9 deaths not recorded any where.
Out of dead pregnant mothers 51 were died at home and 1 of those deaths registered in UFPO, 45 at UP death register and 5 no-where.
Two of the 6 pregnant mothers died on way to hospital 2 of those deaths were not registered like the 2 deaths at clinics, the report said.
Among the dead pregnant women highest 31 (28 percent) aged 20-24, 28 (26 percent) aged 25-29 and 24 (22 percent) aged 30-34 while highest 41 died of eclampsia, 33 died of over bleeding.
Eight-point suggestions were given in the survey report for making compulsion to properly register maternal mortality under a standard process by coordinating local government offices and representatives by avoiding overlapping. (Source: Barisal correspondent)
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