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Gambia: Gambians to Protest Against Rising Maternal Deaths
The Point, 23 September 2020
Having registered series of maternal deaths in The Gambia, a group of concern Gambians called Mbama Care Foundation in partnership with Gambian Women's Lives Matter will hold a… Read more »
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Gambia: Health Minister Blames Abortion for High Maternal Mortality
Foroyaa, 24 September 2020
Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh, the Gambia's Health Minister, said Thursday one of the causes of maternal mortality in the country is due to the actions of crude abortionists. Read more »
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Gambia: Hundreds Protest Over "Alarming Rate" of Maternal Deaths
The Point, 24 September 2020
Hundreds of people mainly women yesterday thronged the busy Kairaba Avenue road protesting over what they described the "alarming rate" of maternal mortality in the country. Read more »
Hundreds Protest Over Alarming Rate of Maternal Deaths in Gambia
The hour-long protest consisting of mostly women who chanted and displayed placards with messages such as "Gambian women lives matter, no woman should die in labour, please Ministry of Health protect us, please help I don't want to die at child labour, I am scared to be pregnant, who looks after my child if I die?" amongst others. According to WHO, the maternal mortality ratio remains "unacceptably high" and it continues to be a major challenge for health service delivery. "The major causes of neonatal deaths are birth asphyxia and prematurity and the leading causes of inpatient deaths in children are pneumonia and malnutrition," the WHO says, but the country's Health Minister Ahmad Lamin Samateh believes "crude abortionists" are also responsible.
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Hundreds of people mainly women yesterday thronged the busy Kairaba Avenue road protesting over what they described the “alarming rate” of maternal mortality in the country.
