About 80 percent of maternal deaths in are directed obstetric deaths. They result "from obstetric complications of the pregnant state (pregnancy, labour, and puerperium), from intervention, omissions, incprrect treatment, or from a chain of eventsresulting from any of the above
Pafupifupi ma peresenti makumi asanu ndi atsatu ya imfa za amayi oyembekezera zimafa mongoyembekezera. Izi zimabwera chifukwa cha zovuta zapakati pamimba (pakati, kubereka, kubereka), chifukwa cholowererapo, kulephera, kusamalidwa bwino, kapena zochitika zambiri zobwera chifukwa cha zilizonse zomwe zili pamwambazi