Evaluation of the benefit of setting up a decentralised obstetric-surgical structure in order to reduce maternal mortality and transfers in the Ivory Coast.
Our purpose is to study the way to reduce maternal mortality when introducing a structured obstetric and surgical center to a community previously without such a center. The study was done in Ivory Coast, where such a structure was set up in 1982 in a rural hospital at Divo. It has been observed that with such a structure there are no more transfers of women from Divo to the teaching hospital at Cocody, and a reduction in maternal mortality at Divo. This observation regarding the value of bringing obstetric services to communities currently without them could be a way among those available to reduce maternal mortality in a developing country such as the Ivory Coast.
Berardi
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C.H. François Quesnay, Mantes la Jolie, France.
Richard
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Djanhan
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Papiernik
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D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D010360:Patient Transfer; D011247:Pregnancy