Non-government organisations working with women-health on Tuesday published a survey report revealing that death-rate of pregnant women during delivery was not properly projected in government statistical report as death-registration was yet to be standardised.
The current maternal mortality ratio of 194 in per lakh was set considering the population of an area and its crude birth rate to show progress in achieving target of 143 deaths per lakh within 2015 under the millennium development goals for Bangladesh, they added.
Sankalpa Trust and women health rights alliance of Naripakkha revealed this in a joint
press conference at Barisal NGO Development Network on occasion of International Women Health Day 2013.
Syed Nuhu Ul Alam Nabin, project officer Naripakkha, read out the report before journalists and it was explained by Mirza SI Khaled, executive director, Sankalpa Trust, Ranjit Datta of BNDN, Sadhana Bepari, Shuvangkar Chakraborty, NGO activists.
In the report it was said that after checking reports of 127 public health service providers in 111 unions under 14 upazilas of 5 districts in Barisal division, they found that only 45 out of 123 deaths of pregnant women during delivery were included in national statistics and the rest 88 (63.41 per cent) deaths were left out.
-With New Age input
