Antioch
The Aníbal Navarro Forensic Specialist Center in the city of Bogotá, which is dedicated to Identify actions that could be considered negligent medical conditions and their repercussions on the health or life of the patientreported that In recent years, the department of Antioquia has stood out for the decrease in fetal deaths, either before or after birth, and the death of mothers during childbirth..
According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE, In 2023 a figure was recorded of 5,344 fetal deaths and 7% of these cases occurred in the department of Antioquia with 385.
In this regard, this is what the specialist forensic doctor Aníbal Navarro said: “Antioquía is located within the departments with better rates of few neonatal and perinatal deaths. Regarding maternal mortality, We have that in Antioch it has improved in the last decade. If we analyze 2010 to 2020, in 2010 approximately 45, 48 women died. For the year 2019-2020, that number had already dropped to 30″.
The doctor adds that this situation, in part, may be due to social situations such as reducing violence in the homein addition to better care in health systems.
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Lastly, the health professional He also warned that the decrease in deaths of fetuses and mothers can improve even further, and that the situation that leads to these fateful events are errors in the care of pregnant women or medical negligence.
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