Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital
1:00 pm
Dr. Rhona Mahony:
That is a great question. I have spent time in Sierra Leone, Malawi and Tanzania, countries with very little by way of assisted childbirth or antenatal care. Those countries have maternal mortality rates of approximately 350 per 100,000 women. A total of 99% of maternal deaths occur in the developing world.