Good news for pregnant women. The number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth has dropped by a third in the past two decades, according to a report from Unicef, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the United Nations Population Fund. Certainly, all health care plans such as Cinergy Health see this as encouraging news.
The number has decreased by a dramatic 34%. While the progress is quite encouraging, it is still less than half of what would be needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goal which is set at a 75% reduction by 2015.
The decline is explained by the more effective measures being taken in countries with the greatest risks. In these countries, they are training more midwives and strengthening hospitals and health centers to assist pregnant women. The report showed that women in developing countries are 36 times more at risk of dying from a pregnancy-related complication than is a woman in a developed country.
