In Depth Analysis of Maternal Mortality in Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital in 2014-2017

Abstract

Child birth is a universally celebrated event for thousands of women every year. But for some women childbirth is experienced not as enjoy full event as should be, but as a hell and tragedy not only for the family but for all the community. Maternal death is defined as death of any woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy. The maternal mortality rate is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 women of the reproductive age (14-49), while the maternal mortality ratio is the number o