The Effect of the Introduction of Emergency Obstetric Drills on Maternal Mortality Trends in a Low-Resource Setting: A 5-Year Review at Mpilo Central Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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CitationNgwenya S. The effect of the introduction of emergency obstetric drills on maternal mortality trends in a low-resource setting: A 5-year review at Mpilo Central Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Maternal deaths are very distressing to the healthcare givers and devastating to surviving family members. They decimate young, healthy women at the peak of their reproductive lives. The deaths result in orphaned children. Globally maternal deaths remain high on the agenda of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) with the aim to reduce them. Developing nations with low/middle incomes contribute the majority of global deaths. Pregnant women in these settings face far greater risks of dying in pregnancy compared to their counterparts in rich-resourced countries. In this unit, there was an introduction of emergency obstetric drills (PROPMT