%0 Journal Article
%T Maternal Mortality at the Teaching Hospital of Mother and Child Lagoon (CHU-MEL) in Benin: A Preventable Drama?
%A M. Aboubakar
%A J. Akodjenou
%A C. Echoudina
%A E. Ahounou
%A C. O. A. Biaou
%A E. Zoumenou
%J Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
%P 315-325
%@ 2160-8806
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojog.2021.113032
%X <strong>Introduction</strong><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><strong>:</strong> The maternal mortality ratio in developing countries is 239/</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">100,000
live births (LV) in 2015, compared to 12/100,000 live births (LV) in developed
countries. This study aims to analyze the avoidability of maternal deaths at
the CHU-MEL from 2015 to 2019.</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Patients and Method</span></b></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">: This was a descriptive analytical study with retrospective data
collection from January 1st 2015 to August 31st 2019, </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">i.e.</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 56 months. The data </span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">were</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> collected from medical records, maternal death registers, anaesthesia
registers. They were entered and analyzed using Epi info version 7 software.
The associations between avoidability of death and aetiologies were tested
using Chi</span><sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> or Fisher¡¯s test as appropriate. The threshold for
statistical significance was 5%.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Results: </span></b></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The maternal mortality ratio over 5 years was 905
maternal deaths per</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 100,000 LV. The age of the deceased women ranged
from 15 to 44 years, with an average of 29.09 ¡À 7.04 years. They were
illiterate or primary educated (47.02%), married (64.50%) primigravida or
paucigravidae (47.02%)
%K Maternal Mortality
%K Avoidability
%K CHU-MEL
%K Benin
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=108055