The 2007 Ghana Heath Service annual report made available to the Daily Graphic indicates that a total number of 108 maternal deaths, representing 3.6 per cent of total deaths, were recorded in the Kumasi metropolis last year.
In 2006, a total of 108 maternal deaths, which represented 3.8 per cent of total deaths, were recorded in the metropolis.
According to the report, 99 of the maternal deaths recorded in Kumasi in 2007 occurred at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), but the report was emphatic that out of that number, 42 were referred from other districts, such as Bosomtwe, Ejisu, Amansie East, Sekyere East, Yeji, Asankragwaa and Atwima Kwanwoma.
In 2004, a total of 120 maternal deaths were recorded in the various health centres in the metropolis, and in 2005, 119 maternal deaths were recorded within the Kumasi metropolis and its environs.
According to the report, nine out of the deaths in 2007 were between 15 and 19 years, while 23 were between the 20 and 24-year age brackets.
It said 20 of the deaths recorded in 2007 were also between 25 and 29 years, while 29 were between 30 and 34 years, with those who were 35 years and above pegged at 27.
The report gave the direct causes of the 109 maternal deaths as septic abortion, uterine rapture, severe anaemia, ectopic puerperal sepsis, severe malaria, shock and bleeding among others.
It also mentioned renal failure, severe malaria, heart failure, chronic renal failure, HIV hepatic failure, Sickle Cell crises and Meningitis as some of the indirect causes of the maternal deaths in 2007 within the Kumasi metropolis and its environs.
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