"Ten to eleven Filipino mothers die each day while giving birth.
This will not happen if the public health system is sufficiently able to provide
reproductive health services to our people, especially the women.
No mother should be allowed to die while giving life.
The State can't afford to close its eyes to the high maternal mortality rate.
Allowing the high MMR to continue would be like committing a crime against our own people."
-Sen. Pia Cayetano
Chair, Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development
* * *
"Maternal health refers to the health of women
during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
While motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience,
for too many women it is associated with suffering, ill-health and even death."
-World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/topics/maternal_health/en/
This will not happen if the public health system is sufficiently able to provide
reproductive health services to our people, especially the women.
No mother should be allowed to die while giving life.
The State can't afford to close its eyes to the high maternal mortality rate.
Allowing the high MMR to continue would be like committing a crime against our own people."
-Sen. Pia Cayetano
Chair, Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development
* * *
"Maternal health refers to the health of women
during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
While motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience,
for too many women it is associated with suffering, ill-health and even death."
-World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/topics/maternal_health/en/
