Nigeria is responsible for ten percent of the
maternal deaths in the world. This ranks
them among the highest in the world.
They are second only to India with 145 maternal deaths every day during
delivery or soon thereafter. Even though
Nigeria has taken actions to reduce this rate, there have not been any positive
results from the efforts. Oluwarotimi Akinola, the Charmin of
Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, blamed the lack of improvement of these
rates on the lack of access to health facilities, poverty, illiteracy, and
women’s refusal to seek the help available at the health facilities when they
are able to receive it. People, as a
result of high rates of illiteracy, are not informed about the health issues
associated with child berthing.
This article relates
perfectly to what we are discussing this week in class. We have examined the global population, its
staggering increase in such a small amount of time, and the factors that have
contributed to it. Women are the nucleus
of the issue of high rates of maternal deaths.
Women in developing countries are more prone to death during or shortly
after delivery because they have so many.
These women have so many children because the healthcare is so poor or nonexistent
where they are from that they already know that a couple of them will not live
to see the age of five, and in order to keep the family going into the next
generation more children must be made.
Women that are not educated are prone to having more children and thus
increasing her chances of maternal death in developing countries because less
educated women have nothing more to do than be a caretaker of the home. Statistics show that when women are more
educated they are inclined to have better healthcare which means that the child
has better chances of surviving and resulting in the woman having less
children. This in turn reduces her chances
of dying while delivering or shortly after.
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