Rural, Urban Disparity for Women and Mothers in Morocco
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Morocco has made great strides in improving maternal health in recent years, decreasing its maternal mortality ratio by over 60 percent since 1990. But women such as Sasbou, in remote parts of the country, can only do so much when a woman runs into serious trouble and access to life-saving care is a two-hour walk away, on a rough mountainous path sometimes blocked by snow."Seventy percent of mothers who die do so on the way to the hospital," said Dr. Abdelghani Drhimeur, head of communications at the Ministry of Health in Rabat. "It takes one hour to hemorrhage and die or even less."
These types of barriers have created a wide maternal health gap between city and certain rural women that Mostafa Lamqaddam, Peace Corps' health program manager in Rabat, said could curb the country's swift progress on maternal health. "The [maternal mortality] rate may stabilize. Probably the system will hit a limit."
Women's eNews managing editor, Juhie Bhatia, with support from the International Reporting Project traveled to Morocco to discover women's real experiences of maternal care in rural Morocco and to take the journey to a health clinic herself.
Read the full story and watch a video of women in the Atlas Mountains talking about the problems they face at http://womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/120922/rougher-road-ahead-moroc...
