page_title: Maternal health in Ethiopia
section_title: Maternal health situation in Ethiopia
hierarchical_section_title: Maternal health in Ethiopia / Maternal health situation in Ethiopia
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of health centers and hospitals in Ethiopia
context_page_description: Sustainable Development Goals is a post Millennium Development Goal agenda by experts in the world which will be implemented within the next 15 years until 2030. It has seventeen goals and 169 targets as a whole where SDG 3 deal with ensuring health lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Sustainable Development Goal3 has nine targets and four sub targets related with different areas of health. One of the targets target 3.1 is a target to achieve a reduction of global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births .Maternal death is defined as "The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.
  Health in Ethiopia has improved from the last decades to then through the major achievement in areas of health service delivery by making health system accessible, affordable and acceptable at different level for the beneficiaries and put different efforts to provide quality health services care.
context_section_description: Following the MDGs target, Ethiopia developed the Health Sector Development Program (HSDP I,II,II,and IV along with performance monitoring and evaluation of the health services. The primary focus of HSDP is improving the provision of primary health care services to mothers and children and prevention and control of communicable diseases in order to reach the targeted outcome. Maternal and child health is the major area and target where different efforts and contributions have been made from the beginning of HSDP I.
  According to Health Sector Development Plan IV (HSDP IV), which was being implemented from 2012 to 2015, the performance evaluation of 2013/14 indicated progress in achievement of family planning service coverage, antenatal care service coverage, institutional delivery and postnatal service coverage. Furthermore, access to emergency obstetric care in the reduction of maternal death during pregnancy and child birth through provision of Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care are the areas where special attention has been given and improvements have been observed.
  The number of health centres and hospitals providing Basic Emergency Obstetric Care (BEmOC) and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmOBC) has been increasing over time (Figure 1). There are 25 functional regional blood banks with 30 satellite mobile teams who are collecting the blood from the communities on a daily basis. The blood banks are located within 150 –200 km radius of their catchment are where both private and public health facilities are able to get safe blood
caption: Number of health centers and hospitals in Ethiopia
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