NewsWhore
01-22-2008, 05:50 PM
Even though 98.9% of mothers get pre-natal care and 97.8% of births take place in the presence of a doctor, for every 100,000 births registered in the DR, 159 mothers between the age of 15 and 49 die as a result of complications. These figures were released by the maternal health study completed as part of the Demographic Health Survey 2007 (ENDESA) conducted by the Center for Social and Demographic Studies (CESDEM). The figures include data from 1997-2007 and according to the study, mortality rates have decreased by 18 points since 2002 when the rate was 178 deaths per 100,000 births. Regardless of the decreases, maternal mortality in the DR is still too high. The study reveals that mothers between the ages of 30 and 34 as well as 15 and 19 had the highest death rates.
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