THE MATERNAL MORTALITY IN ISMAILIA CITY DURING THE PERIOD OF(1990-1994)

Abstract

The maternal mortality and morbidity will measure the

degree of health. Maternal mortality is a glaring case of gender discrimination and desvearse the designation of health scandal of our time. Child birth is a universally celebrated event,yet for many

thousands of women each day. child birth is experienced not as the joyful event it should be but as a private hell that many end in death. The maternal deaths defined as "death of any women while

pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective the duration and site of pregnancy or its management" The Maternal Mortality Ratio is defined as number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live birth, while the Maternal Mortality rate is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 women in reproductive age (15-50 years). The WHO, estimated that a half million women die each year from pregnancy related causes, over 99% of these deaths occurring in the developing countries.

One of the widest health disparities between rich and poor is in maternal mortality an over all maternal mortality of 400/100,000 live birth in developing world, ranging up to I 1500/100,000 in Subsahran regions, compared with mortality in Western Europe as 6/100,000 live births.