| Poor maternal health and poverty are directly | | | | 2. Most of the pregnant women in Bangladesh are |
| interrelated. Bangladesh being one of the poor | | | | under nourished which severely affects the child and |
| countries in the world has worse maternal mortality | | | | contributes to the high mortality rate. Pregnant |
| rate in South Asia. It has been estimated that every | | | | woman and her family need to be aware about the |
| year 21,000 women die during pregnancy or while | | | | necessary levels of nutrition. |
| giving birth to a child. Most of these deaths occur due | | | | 3. Improve the body mass index of the women who |
| to hemorrhage, anemia, hypertension and obstructed | | | | are expecting by making them aware of it. The body |
| labor. Absence of medication for pregnant woman | | | | mass index of majority of the pregnant woman in |
| and delay in receiving the appropriate mode of | | | | Bangladesh are lower than the minimum required |
| transportation is also a major contributing factor to | | | | which leads to complications in pregnancy. |
| poor maternal health. | | | | 4. Poor maternal health is also a result of |
| One of the major reasons for poor maternal health is | | | | socioeconomic condition of the women in the |
| the lack of skilled birth attendants which accounts for | | | | country. Making people aware of the harm of |
| just 13% of all deliveries in Bangladesh. Another | | | | teenage pregnancy which can prove to be fatal both |
| major reason for the poor is the fact that female | | | | for the child as well as the mother. |
| children are not adequately nourished since their birth | | | | 5.Encouraging people to maintain gap between their |
| and generally conceive early in life. The resultant poor | | | | children. Frequent pregnancy among women in |
| health and low birth weight has been carrying on for | | | | Bangladesh has been one of the primary reasons for |
| centuries. | | | | the poor state health of the mother. |
| The biggest challenge for the government and | | | | By creating a support system within various |
| nongovernmental organizations is how to improve | | | | communities be it in villages or certain pockets of the |
| maternal health condition of women in Bangladesh. | | | | urban areas can improve the maternal health. This |
| The high levels of illiteracy among women acts as a | | | | could be aimed at making the entire community take |
| major roadblock in all developmental projects. Some | | | | steps towards the improvement of maternal health. |
| of the required steps needed in to improve this issue | | | | These campaigns run by certain organizations has |
| in Bangladesh are: | | | | yielded substantial results in the places where the |
| 1. Educating women folk in all stages of pregnancy | | | | campaign has been carried out. Encouraged by this |
| right from early days of conceiving to proper delivery | | | | recent success it is now looking to spread the |
| of the child. They need to be educated on the basic | | | | campaign to other parts of the country in the near |
| precautions to be taken during pregnancy. | | | | future. |