Annual Report of the Department of Health 2010 - Unrwa

Table 15 – Distribution of maternal deaths by cause of death and Field in 2010
Cause of death Jordan Lebanon Syria Gaza Strip West Bank Agency
Pulmonary embolism 3 1 1 2 1 8
Cardiac cause
2
1
1
4
Haemorrhage
2
2
DIC
Sep caemia
2
2
Bronchial asthma
Sickle cell disease
Toxaemia
Swine Flu, H1N1
Cancer colon
1
1
1
Total 7 2 4 8 2 23
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
Five maternal deaths (21.7%) were due to preventable causes of which two due to haemorrhage, two due to septicaemia and one due to
toxaemia/hypertension. Pulmonary embolism was the main reported cause of death in eight cases (34.8%), and 7 women (30%) had
underlying morbidities (four cases of heart failure/disease and one case of each sickle cell disease, colon cancer and bronchial asthma). Five
women died of iatrogenic complications in the hospital (three cases of cardiac arrest and 2 of septic shock) two died of disseminated
intravascular coagulation and one due to influenza A/H1N1v infection.
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