Precise Effective Strategies to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Resource Constrained Settings

A maternal death, as defined by the ninth and tenth revisions of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), is ‘the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.’[1]. sadly maternal deaths occurred almost every two minutes globally in 2020. This means a funeral almost every two minutes as a result of maternal deaths and this causes enormous pain emotionally in families and children. The death of a woman giving birth is such a sad and painful clinical outcome. Bearing this in mind the deaths of these woman has become a global public health nightmare especially in low to middle income countries like Zimbabwe. Huge investments in terms of skill, time, money buildings, and equipment has been invested to curb this public health problem. The deaths of these woman leads to orphans, widowers, disruption of families and suffering of the remaining children motherless.