Join an expert panel on Thursday 28 January to discuss ways to improve healthcare for current and expectant mothers in insecure environmentsAround the world,800 women die every day from preventable pregnancy-related causes – 99% of which occur in developing countries. The sustainable development goals aim to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100000 live births by 2030.
Remote clinics and a skills shortage are not the only barriers to providing effective maternal health care. In areas of protracted clash and insecurity the challenge is greater. More than half of Syria’s hospitals were said to have been destroyed by 2013 as they became collateral damage – or even the targets – of warfare. In April 2012, Medecins sans Frontieres reported that an explosion took place inside the compound of its maternity hospital in Khost, or Afghanistan,injuring seven people.
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Source: theguardian.com