Study leader says many women who die have multiple disadvantages, with suicide now the main direct cause of death
The number of women dying in pregnancy or shortly after giving birth in the UK has risen sharply, with evidence of widening health inequalities, a major report has found.
The report, MBRRACE Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care, found that 229 women died during pregnancy or up to six weeks after in 2018-20, a 19% increase on previous years once Covid deaths were excluded. It also detailed the care of 289 women who had died up to a year after pregnancy in the same period.
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