Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday an-nounced that monthly meetings will be held with Ministry of Health (MOH) officials on every maternal death, as government continues to take steps to address the increase in numbers.
Dr Luncheon said the move is part of the “heightened monitoring of maternal deaths.” He that MoH officials will have to submit a report on every death to the cabinet sub-committee on health and also report the year-to-date deaths and the sub-committee would then report to Cabinet. “The Cabinet sub-committee will assess those deaths and reports and on the basis of those assessments make known its findings to Cabinet. Cabinet will then provide its own directions and its own opinions and thoughts to the Ministry of Health,” Luncheon told reporters yesterday at his weekly Cabinet press briefing at Office of the President.
Meanwhile, according to Luncheon,
