Asamankese (E/R), Dec 2, GNA – Dr Anthony Normeshie,
Executive Director of Health For All Herbal Clinic at Oworam near
Asamankese in the Eastern Region, has said that hypertension was now
the leading cause of maternal death in the country. At a press briefing at Owora, Dr Normeshie said hypertension had
now overtaken haemorrhage as the leading cause of maternal mortality
in Ghanaian cities. “Changing behavioural and lifestyle characteristics of women,
especially pregnant women in the cities, have attributed to this,” he
stressed. Dr Normeshie said there were three types of high-blood pressure in
pregnant women, one of which was chronic hypertension where high-
blood pressure developed before the twentieth week of pregnancy or
was present before the woman became pregnant. He said the second category was gestation hypertension where
some women just got high blood pressure near the end of the
pregnancy period, while the third was pregnancy-induced hypertension
(PIH) which condition could cause serious problems for both the
mother and the baby if left untreated. The Executive Director said all hands needed to be on deck to
achieve the Millennium Development Goal five (MDG 5) of reducing
maternal mortality by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. 02 Dec 10
Source: GhanaWeb
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