Pregnancy related causes of deaths in Ghana: a 5-year retrospective study.

CONCLUSION: Ghana continues to have persistently high levels of preventable causes of maternal deaths. Community based studies, on maternal mortality are urgently needed in Ghana, since our autopsy studies indicates that 81% of deaths recorded in this study occurred in the community or within 24 hours of admission to a health facility. PMID: 24669020 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Ghana Medical Journal - Category: African Health Tags: Ghana Med J Source Type: research