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Fewer moms are dying in child birth, data shows
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An increasing number of Chinese mothers-to-be are choosing to give birth in hospitals, contributing to the drop in China’s maternal death rate, according to a report released by the National Health Commission.
China’s rate of hospital deliveries has remained over 99 percent in the past six years.
And the percentage in rural areas has seen a rise from 51.7 percent in 1996 to 99.8 percent in 2018.
As maternal health care continues to improve, the country’s maternal death rate, by 2018, has dropped to 18.3 out of every 100,000, down 79.4 percent from 1990, said the NHC’s report.
China has also seen a reduced gap in the maternal death rate between urban and rural areas.
By 2018, the maternal death rate in urban and rural areas dropped by 81.2 percent and 67.2 percent, respectively, from 1990, with the ratio dropping to 1:1.3.
The country has given priority to enhancing health care for women and children in poverty-stricken regions via a three-year action plan for poverty alleviation through health care.
Major health-care projects such as disease screening for newborns now cover all poverty-stricken areas in China, according to the report.
The country also reached the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals in 2014, ahead of time, to cut down the maternal death rate by 75 percent from that in 1990, the report said.
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