GUEST COLUMNIST: A Successful Model for Maternal Health Care Delivery

Yet, as recently as fifteen years ago, pregnant women in Tanzania were not accessing such care. The situation in Kigoma was particularly troubling: according to the 2004/2005 Demographic Health Survey, only 39 per cent of births occurred at a health facility. Delivering in a health facility under the care of a skilled health professional is critical to ensuring good outcomes for both mother and baby, and ideally this figure should approach 100 per cent. Moreover, approximately 15 per cent of pregnant women will have a potentially life-threatening complication and because we can’t always predict who, it’s essential that all births are attended by a skilled health professional who can recognise and manage complications. In Kigoma, one number that suggested that many complications were going untreated was the low caesarean section rate of 1.5 per cent, well below the recommended minimum of 5 per cent. When asked why women weren’t accessing care around the time of delivery, lack of money, distance to a health facility, and the need to take transport were the most frequently cited reasons.

GUEST COLUMNIST: A Successful Model for Maternal Health Care Delivery

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