Improve Maternal Health

Among the MDGs, I feel that the goal 5 which is to “Improve Maternal Health” is the most closely to my heart. I recognize that many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In the world's wealthier countries, that is. In poorer countries, the day a child born is all too often the day its mother dies. And based from my research, more than half a million women die in pregnancy and childbirth every year and that's approximately one death every minute. I just can’t imagine that maternal deaths represent the greatest indicator of inequity between rich and poor women.

I believe that this goal could possibly be improved if everybody would be hand and hand to help in implementing this goal; right? That’s why; it’s a challenge for all of us to be part of this goal. And our targets are to reduce maternal deaths by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, to ensure faster progress among the poor and to provide universal access to reproductive health.

As an Atenean student, even in my simplest way to help in improving the maternal health and in order to achieve the targets, certainly I could be a volunteer and handle free seminars/programs in order to voice out the MDGs, to broader their minds about health services especially family planning who do not have adequate access to good quality contraception, and to let them be a responsible parenthood in order to improve their lifestyle. I would also encourage them, help them realize, and value that childbirth should be something to look forward to everywhere for our future and be able to seek for assistance at birth and access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care for management of complications.

Indeed, we must train ourselves to be responsible enough in everything we do. Governments should also take to ensure that health have the significant effects on all aspects of development and poverty reduction. And let’s play an important role to our world to transform health systems to save lives and promote development.