Improve quality and increase access to family planning and maternal health care services Educate couples to ensure they have the best chance for a wanted and safe pregnancy Safe motherhood is one of the important components of Reproductive Health. It means ensuring that all women receive the care they need, to be safe and healthy throughout pregnancy and childbirth. It is the ability of a mother to have safe & healthy pregnancy & child birth.

1. Setting Rules
 No cross talks
 Cell phone on silent
 Hand raise if any question

2. Safe Motherhood
Dr. Sindhu Almas
Lecturer Community Medicine
Department, LUMHS Jamshoro.

4. HISTORY
 In 1930 the League of Nations Health Section noted
concerns about maternal mortality.
 The first international conference on Safe
Motherhood was in 1987, Nairobi.
 It led to the formation of an Inter-Agency Group
(IAG) for Safe Motherhood.
 To reduce maternal mortality in developing countries
by 50% in 1decade

5. Incidence Underreported

6. Maternal Mortality: A Global
Tragedy
Annually, 585,000 women die of
pregnancy related complications
 99% in developing world
1% in developed countries

8. Assignment
Pakistan’s epidemiologic
statistics on maternal and
child health (current data)

9. Maternal Health: Scope of
Problem
180–200 million pregnancies per year
75 million unwanted pregnancies
50 million induced abortions
20 million unsafe abortions (same as
above)
600,000 maternal deaths (1 per minute)

10. COUNTRY SITUATION

12. Safe Motherhood Definition
Safe motherhood is one of the important
components of Reproductive Health. It
means ensuring that all women receive the
care they need, to be safe and healthy
throughout pregnancy and childbirth. It is
the ability of a mother to have safe &
healthy pregnancy & child birth.

13. SAFE MOTHERHOOD GOAL
To improve well being of
mothers through a
comprehensive approach of
providing, preventing,
promoting, curative and
rehabilitative health care

14. SAFE MOTHERHOOD
OBJECTIVE
Improve quality and increase
access to family planning and
maternal health care services
Educate couples to ensure they
have the best chance for a
wanted and safe pregnancy

15. Cont.
To promote improvement of systems for
monitoring maternal and newborn health
services;
To promote the implementation of evidence-
based integrated cost-effective reproductive
health interventions with a focus on maternal
and newborn health within primary health care
approach;

16. Cont.
To conduct operations research
to generate best practices and
evidence for addressing priority
reproductive health problems.

27. Lady Health Visitors Midwives
LHV’s comprise the most important midwifery
group of first and second level healthcare facility
network functional in rural areas in the public
areas. It will not be out of place to mention that
we are an agro based country and majority of
the population lives in villages. In this way this
healthcare segment for women health is playing
a crucial role.

28. Cont.
They are field workers and are in
direct contact with the community
for ensuring safe motherhood
practices. They are trained & also
serve as a referral link for
complicated patients to higher
health facility hospitals.