The latest figures published about maternal mortality are good news in Uruguay, as the number is almost null. But I wonder what price women are paying to sustain these numbers.
Obviously we are the stakeholders in this. However, we also have the right to choose where and how to give birth in safe conditions. In Uruguay, 99% of births take place in medical institution, and in certain maternity cesarean rates are as high as 80% (The WHO suggests no more than 15%).
It seems clear that the price of such a low rate of mortality is based on institutional deliveries and interventions. But I wonder, could it be possible to humanize birth and maintain these rates? Why the Public Health Ministry did not enable the first birth center in the country founded in 2011? Which provided free care to most of the population, placing birth within the first levels of care (ie, very low cost, to a level of prevention and not pathology). To lear more about “Centro de Maternidad Montevideo": http://www.institutoperinatal.org.uy/es/cmm/default.aspx
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