• Trop Geogr Med · Sep 1975

    Maternal mortality in Western Nigeria.

    • S Olu Oduntan and V B Odunlami.
    • Trop Geogr Med. 1975 Sep 1; 27 (3): 313-6.

    AbstractData on maternal deaths were collected from a randomly selected sample of medical institutions in the Western State of Nigeria for the years 1972 and 1973. An overall maternal mortality rate of 3.8/1000 total births were recorded for 1972 and 1973 respectively. The major causes of maternal mortality were haemorrhage, obstructed labour, eclampsia, anaemia of pregnancy and infection.

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