Human death comes in many forms, but perhaps none more devastating and unfair than death in birth. Especially when the death could have been prevented.
According to Professor Lynn Freedman, from Columbia University’s School of Public Health, in developing countries there are five basic complications that cause the vast majority of maternal deaths: uncontrolled bleeding, infection, the consequences of unsafe abortions, prolonged and obstructed labor, and hypertensive diseases of pregnancy.
“The vast majority of deaths in high-mortality countries [are] from a handful of very clear direct causes,” she says concluding that since the causes and cures are so well understood, it is possible to eliminate almost all of them by simply providing the proper resources
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