Last home delivery death of 1988 in Faisalabad city

ABSTRACT

A case of last home delivery death of 1988 in Faisalabad city is described. A 20 years old full-term pregnant women into labour at home on December 29, 1988. She was attended by a Traditional Birth Attendent [TBA] and expired on 30.12.1988, during child birth. A retrospective survey confirmed the inability of TBA to refer the high risk women to hospital in time. Moreover, the family members of poor woman were reluctant for her confinement to hospital because of the inconveniences experienced by them due to the behaviour of hospital staff during her last child birth