30/05/2016
By Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD, with information from the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center (CEPS)
Photo: Disclosure – RN Reviews Program
On May 28, International Day of Action for Women's Health It is National Day for Reducing Maternal Mortality, the director of teaching and research at the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), Reginaldo Freitas Junior, spoke about preventable maternal mortality in the framework Simplify, within the television program RN Reviews. The interview, conducted by journalist Marillac Glacier, addressed some aspects of this topic, which has been an ISD project since 2015, carried out within the scope of the Institutional Social and Community Action Program.
The interview, which was shown on Intertv Cabugi, a TV Globo affiliate in Rio Grande do Norte, may be view in full below (click on image):
About preventable maternal mortality
The right to safe motherhood is still not effectively guaranteed for many women around the world. Death due to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum complications affects thousands of women annually and this is a serious public health problem, mainly because the majority of these deaths are completely preventable.
Maternal mortality is a complex issue that deserves an expanded discussion with the whole of society. It is necessary for everyone to understand that reducing maternal mortality is not restricted to an issue of quality of health services or a country's development, but, above all, is related to citizenship rights and, above all, must be seen as an issue of human rights.
The recharacterization of preventable maternal mortality from a health disadvantage to a social injustice must impose on governments a moral obligation to remedy this injustice, as the disrespect for values and norms reflected in constitutional laws and international human rights treaties is clear. .
