Maternal Mortality in Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Tanzania

Table 1

General information.

Characteristic	Number
Number of all women who delivered	8722
Number of maternal deaths	35
Number of women who delivered at DRRH	13
Number of women who were referred after childbirth	15
Number of women who died undelivered	4
Mode of delivery at DRRH:
SVD	2
CS	8
Laparotomy for ruptured uterus	3
Age (years)
≤15-19	4
20-24	7
25-29	4
30-34	7
35 and above	13
Level of education
No formal education	18
Primary	14
Secondary	1
College	2
Marital status
Single	2
Married/cohabiting	33
Occupation
Housewife	13
Peasant	17
Petty trade	3
Employed (formal)	2
Parity
1	9
2	6
3	3
4	2
5+	15
Source of admission
Home	3
Referred from another health facility	32

Of 8722 women who delivered at DRRH, there were 8404 live births and 35 maternal deaths. This makes MMR for 2018 to be 417 per 100,000 live births. Most of the deceased were of age 35 and above and with no formal education. Housewives and petty traders made majority of these women. A great majority of the women who had died were referred from other health facilities.