National Maternal Death surveillance and Response: Sri Lankan scenario

摘要

Loss of a woman in the reproductive age has a lasting impact on thefamily and the society, with a multitude of socioeconomic implications, whichoften cause deleterious effects at different levels, even many years later. Giventhe relevance of maternal deaths, many countries across the world haveimplemented National Maternal Death Surveillance and Response mechanisms[1]. Around each maternal death there are 10-20 women who develop severeacute maternal morbidity, where very ill pregnant or recently delivered women,who would have died had it not been that luck and good care was on theirside, survive with immediate and/or long term adverse sequelae [2, 3].