Ricardo Batista Leite: “Portugal had the worst maternal mortality rate in 38 years in 2020”
At a time when Portuguese hospitals are limited in terms of assistance due to the lack of human resources, Marta Temido The Assembly of the Republic, for the members of the Auditório de Almeida Santos, for the effective members of the parliamentary committee, including members Ricardo Batista Leite and António Maló de Abreu, from the PSD. After taking over the government of which she has been a part for 90 days, Marta Temido congratulated all the choices that allowed the SNS to win the fight against Covid-19, but not without admitting some flaws: “We are well aware that the SNS faces problems in responding, especially health. The last few days have shown that.”
The Health Minister also added that the new SNS statute should be approved next week, at the Council of Ministers, but the guarantees were not enough for the Social Democrat. Ricardo Batista Leitethe first to intervene: “Given what we have been going through in recent weeks, if nothing else was needed, what would come to this Assembly of the Republic and minister that the chosen Government was not chosen. And with humility to say that it is necessary to rethink as structural reforms. What we just witnessed was a 15-minute speech reaffirming the set of reforms that the minister had already announced four years ago.”
After recording the promise by António Costa that on Monday, March 20th, the problems of the 20 women born to the Queen were resolved, Ricardo Batista Leite also brought to the commission the case of the newborn in Caldas who died at the Hospital das Caldas who are in the Hospital das Caldas who are pregnant in mortality to assist them to know that everything happened and what was expected. Portugal presented, for 2020, the worst maternal mortality rate in the last 38 years. We haven’t seen a death rate since 1982 [tão alta]. It was 17 days either during pregnancy, childbirth or during the puerperium (up to 42 days after childbirth)”, says the deputy, warning during the trend that is already in 2019.
“Pregnant women who are at home watching this whole scenario of maternal mortality 20, which is what is important for women, the worst, are suffering maternal mortality Portugal. mother of the last 38 years. Since 1982 I have not we are witnessing a death rate [tão alta]”.
The Polygraph consulted the most recent Dice made available by National Institute of Statistics, related to 2020 and updated from these months on the 25th: In that year, 19 women suffered from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. Data are not specified and already differ from those reported at the end of May this year by the “Newspaper” (at the time there were 17 deaths).
Now, even though the number has increased, the truth is that the maternal mortality rate, taking into account that, in 2020registered in Portugal the birth of 84,426 live births, children of mothers residing in the national territory, was around 22.5 deaths per 100 thousand births. According to INE data consulted by the JN, it is necessary to recover 38 years, until 1982, as mentioned by Batista Leite, to find such a high number.
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