The First Lady, Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills, is worried by statistics that seemed to place a verdict of uncertainty on the ability of sub-Sahara Africa, including Ghana, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the set year of 2015.
She stated that though the result of the 2008 Ghana demographic and health survey appeared to give a ray of hope, in that whereas under-5 mortality had markedly reduced to 80 per 1,000 live births from 111 per 1,000 live births the previous survey of 2003�, the same level of accelerated reduction cannot be said for mortality�.
Maternal mortality had reduced from 740 in the 1990s to 451 per 100,000 live births in 2007.
�The problem was not only with the death but the injuries occurring from badly managed deliveries which are also leading to obstetric fistulae,� she mentioned.
The First Lady, Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills noted that maternal mortality was the second highest cause of death in women aged between 15 and 49 years and that more than 10,000 of such deaths had been documented in the last decade.
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