First Advisory and Real-Time Health Surveillance toReduce Maternal Mortality Using Mobile Technology

摘要

1 Introduction Maternal mortality is death of any woman while pregnant or 42 completed days during post partum period. Maternal Mortality Rates (MMRs) measures the risk of dying from pregnancy. This is expressed as number of deaths per 100000 births. According to Patel et al[l] 70.69 % of maternal deaths within 24 hours of admission in the hospital are due to geographic conditions, lack of qualified medical attention, delayed referral and late intervention. Therefore a vast majority of these deaths are preventable [2].