Poor health care, cause of maternal mortality

• April 16, 2024

In Mexico, every three minutes a woman dies as a result of pre-eclampsia, a hypertensive disease that, in addition, is the first cause of cesareans , together with other factors such as eclampsia, hemorrhages and obstetric infections; Therefore, it is necessary to reduce all that risk that contributes to maternal mortality.

In accordance with Jacqueline Tovar Casas, President of the Mexican Foundation for Prevention and Maternal Health , 80% of cases of maternal mortality are preventable, so it is necessary to intensify the attention and information on hypertensive diseases during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, as well as medical care of better quality against obstetric emergencies .

On the occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week , in an interview with GetQoralHealth, Nallely Vitela Padilla He offers us his testimony about one of the consequences of poor, timely and informed medical care, during pregnancy, in the following video:

About, Guadalupe Ramírez Rojas, representative of the Observatory of Maternal Mortality in Mexico, explains that one of the points to highlight, according to the Inter-Institutional Collaboration Agreement for Obstetric Emergency Care, is the importance of providing prompt, immediate and free care to any woman who presents an obstetric emergency, regardless of their affiliation medical

Reason for which, it promotes its initiative before the Health and Social Security Commissions so that the health services give prompt attention to women of gestational age who present an obstetric emergency, as well as to support for free those who are in situation of high marginalization.

On the other hand, Flor de María Pedraza Aguilera, president of the Committee for the Study Center for the Advancement of Women and Gender Equity (CEAMEG) , indicated that this initiative is intended to fulfill the Plan of the Millennium Development Goals (UN), signed by the Mexican government to reduce maternal and infant mortality due to this cause in 2015.