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Addressing Maternal Health Crisis in Chad: A Call for Action

Chad faces severe maternal and infant health challenges, ranking 1st in the world for maternal mortality and 6th for infant mortality. With 22.6% unemployment and nearly 80% living below the poverty line, access to healthcare is critically low. Only 1 in 4 births are attended by professionals, which is a direct contributor to the high rates of complications and deaths. Organizations like UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders aim to improve conditions by increasing assisted childbirths through recruitment of healthcare workers and establishment of basic health centers. Immediate action is needed to save lives.

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Addressing Maternal Health Crisis in Chad: A Call for Action

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  1. Chad By: Brandon Walker, Tom Renk, and Anthony Roggio

  2. A DEVELOPING COUNTRY • GDP growth • 13% in 2010 • 7% in 2012 • GDP per capita • $2,000 • Exports • $4.951 billion • Imports • $3.936 billion

  3. DEVELOPING ISSUES • Unemployment rate • 22.6% • 80% of people live below poverty line • Literacy rate • 53% • Life expectancy • 49.07 years • 223rd in world

  4. THE BIGGEST ISSUE • Infant mortality rate • 91.94 deaths/1,000 births • 6th in world • Maternal mortality rate • 1,100 deaths/100,000 live births • 1st in world • 76% of women are unassisted during child birth • 5.89 births per woman

  5. Maternal Mortality Rate 1995 1990 2005 2000

  6. CAUSES OF POOR MATERNAL HEALTH Causes of Maternal Mortality • Haemorrhage • Ruptured blood vessel • Increases after multiple births • Poor health care • 1 in 4 births are delivered with professional help • Other plaguing diseases “Research has shown that approximately 80 per cent of maternal deaths could be averted if women had access to essential maternity and basic health-care services” -Unicef.org

  7. EFFECTS OF POOR MATERNAL HEALTH • Maternal mortality • Chad: 1st in world • Infant mortality rate • 1 out of 5 children will die before the age of five • Newborns suffer • Transmission of fatal diseases

  8. WHAT IS ALREADY BEING DONE? • Unicef • Help improve the health and education of children and their mothers • Provided feeding for more than 9,500 malnourished children • 45,000 mosquito nets to children and pregnant women

  9. OUR SOLUTION • Increase the number of assisted childbirths • Doctor to population ratio is 1:25,000 • U.S. 1:300 • Approximately 500,000 babies born per year • 380,000 are unassisted • About 1,000 unassisted per day Doctors are limited in Chad today

  10. OUR SOLUTION • Requirements • At least two years of professional experience • Availability for minimum 9-12 months • Average salary: $18,000/year • Doctors Without Borders • Recruits medical and non-medical aid workers to provide assistance in nearly 60 countries • Seeking nurse-midwives/certified midwives

  11. OUR SOLUTION • Doctors Without Borders • $18,000 per year • Hire 1,000 doctors for two years • $36 million • Construct 600 basic health centers • $21,500 (Material: $12,500; 40 people at $5 per day x 45 days: $9,000) • Total: $12.9 million $48.9 million

  12. REMAINING MONEY • $1.1 million remaining • Birthing kits • A plastic sheet, soap, 2 gloves, sterile scalpel blade, 3 cords and 5 gauze squares • Provides a safe birthing environment • 550,000 at $2 each

  13. WORKS CITED • "United Nations Millennium Development Goals." UN News Center. UN, n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/. • "Central Intelligence Agency." CIA. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <https:// www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cd.html>. • "Chad Statistics." UNICEF. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http:// www.unicef.org/infobycountry/chad-statistics>. • "Work With MSF." Doctors Without Borders. MSF-USA Association, n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/>. • "World Birth Aid Clean Birth Kit." World Birth Aid RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://worldbirthaid.org/birth-kit/>.

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