Residents in Karamoja region and the country at large are worried about the
increasing number of maternal mortality rate in Karamoja region. Statistics show
that since January 2024, (twelve )12 people have died in such an incident from
Moroto regional referral hospital alone.
This has made most of the concerned people worry since most of the mothers in
Karamoja region don’t give birth from the hospitals.
Karamoja region has at least 126 heath facilities including 5 hospitals, 121 health
centres covering 51 sub counties of the seven districts serving a population of at
least 1.2 million people with about 70% residing in rural areas.
According to the 2022 Uganda Demographic Health Survey, the maternal mortality
ratio in Uganda was reduced from 336 to 189 per 100,000 live births while infant
mortality went from 43 to 34 per 1000 live births.
According to the United Nations Population Fund the number of women dying in
child birth has reduced over years but some 6000 women and adolescent girls still
die every year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and child birth.
Most of the mothers die because of obstructed labour, infection, postpartum
bleeding, unsafe abortion, Sepsis, Eclampsia, severe bleeding during birth and
anemia.
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Maternal mortality rate can be reduced and prevented by the early initiation of
parental care by pregnant women and continuous monitoring of pregnancy by
health providers and providing all pregnant women and their infants with the
recommended level of maternal and health care.
Who should be blamed for this increase.
The ministry of health which has failed to stock the hospital pharmacies and provide
what ever that is needed for the well being of a patient in the hospital?
The nurses who always torture and speak rudely not forgetting extorting money
from the patients?
Nurses who are not always at the hospitals in working hours.
The service and delivery committee which has failed to put forward a detailed report
on the status of these health facilities ?
