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Abstract
The death of any woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes .
Causes of maternal mortality:
Direct Obstetric Causes:
Include Hemorrhage, pregnancy induced hypertension, infection, Anesthesia and others (molar pregnancy and transfusion hemolysis)
Indirect Obstetric Causes:
Include cardiac diseases, vascular diseases as hypertensive vascular disease and vascular embolism, reproductive tract diseases (such as uterine and adnexal tumors), urinary tract diseases, hepatic diseases, Pulmonary diseases, metabolic diseases (such as Diabetes), others (such as appendicitis and peritonitis of non-puerperal origin).
Non-related Causes:
A death occurring during pregnancy or within 90 days of its termination from causes not related to the pregnancy or of its complications or management. Such as Communicable and infectious diseases, Blood Dyscrasias, Malignancy, Suicide and Murder.
The Three Delays Model
Delay type one: Deciding to seek care
Delay type two : is due to Distance to health centers and hospitals
Delay type three : In Receiving adequate health care
Material And Methods
This work was carried out to study maternal mortality in Minia Maternity Hospital, during the period from the first of January 2017 to the end of December 2017 and its comparison with same study in prev. 2 years (2015& 2016) .
Data was collected by reviewing the patients’ admission files of the Obstetric Department at minia university hospital and tracing questionaires of maternal mortality survey team at minia Directorate of health after getting the offical approval from the Minisrty of health.