Challenges in Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate in Pakistan

2023 · doi:10.32388/vlt3ap
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This paper analyzes the persistent barriers to lowering maternal mortality rates within Pakistan, highlighting systemic issues in healthcare infrastructure and access. The authors examine various socioeconomic and cultural factors that contribute to high maternal death statistics across different regions of the country. A key finding is the significant gap between available medical services and their effective utilization by pregnant women in rural and underserved areas. The paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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With only seven years until the 2030 deadline, Pakistan has a long way to go to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Pakistan ranks 125th out of 163 nations in terms of meeting the SDGS (Sachs et al., 2022). One of the important goals is the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3), which focuses on boosting the health and well-being of people of all ages (United Nations, 2015). Target 3.1, which aims to reduce maternal mortality rates to less than 70 per 100,000 live births, is a critical goal for improving maternal health internationally (WHO, 2021). It is a worldwide health concern and critical to achieving long-term development goals (WHO, 2021). In Pakistan, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) is 186 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births (WHO, 2021). Although Pakistan has made progress in lowering maternal mortality rates (MMR) since 1990, with the MMR falling from 521 in 1990 to 178 in 2021 (Bongaarts, 2015; WHO, 2021), much more work is needed to address this critical issue. However, several challenges must be overcome to achieve this goal, which will be explored in this essay. Furthermore, effective strategies to assist Pakistan in overcoming these hurdles and making significant progress in lowering its MMR will be presented.
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