Maternal Mortality - A Legal Case Study

Abstract

These study legal case discuss a case of Maternal Mortality presented for litigation demonstrating the obstacles and shortcomings of instruments of justices and social constitutions to guarantee patient rights and safety. INTRODUCTION The Tenth of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) defines a maternal death as the death of a woman pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes (1). Maternal Mortality during childbirth is one of the most concerned attention of health authority in the world because it is linked with economic situation of the mother health care standard in the society and the accessibility of the mother to proper health authority during pregnancy and birth. The mother who die during pregnancy is a healthy mother and her death is very tragic because it changes an occasion which is supposed to be a happy one into a tragic occasion affecting the child and the mother in one hand and the family member in the other because the family will be disrupted , the young child or children left by the mother would suffer from malnutrition, sickness and death. The father would lead unsettled life (2). Medical authorities classify the causes of maternal death according to the following classification: Direct causes: about (80%)