Shyira Hospital in Nyabihu District in West, Ruli Hospital in Gakenke in North and Kacyiru Hospital located in Gasabo Disctrict of the Kigali City have recorded no maternal death during the past seven months according to the Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba.
In a tweet, Minister Dr. Diane Gashumba wrote: “Shyira, Kacyiru and Ruli hospitals have managed to reduce #maternal deaths to zero in the past seven months. Congratulations! We encourage others to do the same.”
Minister Gashumba made the revelations after a quarterly meeting that brought together leaders from the Ministry of Health, the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and all public hospitals to follow up the implementation of strategies put in place to keep improving service delivery in health facilities and avoid any maternal or child death.
In 2015, Rwanda achieved the fifth among the Millennium Development Goals (MDG 5) which had two targets; to reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio and to achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.
Rwanda is one of only nine countries to have achieved this goal of reducing their maternal mortality rates by at least 75% by 2015.
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