‘Every day, 675 newborns, 27 mothers die in Pakistan’

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ISLAMABAD/UN: About 675 children under the age of a month and 27 mothers are killed every day due to complications that killed about 67 675 children.

On the occasion of World Health Day 2025, WHO and UN agencies have called on government and international partners to invest in maternity and newborn health immediately, and warn that disabled is a threat to the country’s future.

According to the WHO, Pakistan also reports more than 190,000 births every year, mostly caused by complications from treatable or treatable conditions such as postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, infection, and unsafe abortion.

According to a new UN report, the figures hold Pakistan in the top four countries – the upper side Nigeria, DR Congo and India, which, according to a new UN report, is collectively 47 % of the 260,000 global maternal mortality estimated in 2023.

“Every country needs healthy mothers and healthy newborns of a prosperous future,” said Dr. Dinging Lou, a representative in Pakistan. “The same maternity or newborn death is a lot, and the cost of being inactive is much higher than the cost of action.”

This year’s World Health Day, the theme of a “healthy start, hopeful future”, indicates the importance of maternity and newborn health as the basis of national development. The WHO estimates that maternity and newborn health withdraw US $ 20 from an investment of $ 1, making it one of the most effective public investments.

Despite some progress, Pakistan is still far from achieving the goals of reduce maternal mortality goals by 2030 and reduce the goals of reducing the number of new deaths by 70 deaths.

Pakistan’s maternity death ratio (MMR) has dropped from 276 to 155 in 2024, and during the same period the newborn death has been reduced from 52 to 37.6 per 1000 living births. Steel birth has also decreased, which has increased to 2000 in 2000 to 27.5 in 200024. However, experts have warned that progress, especially in rural and conflict -affected areas, has been uneven and fragile.

Who notes that about 80 % of Pakistan’s population (190 million people) now live in areas where the newborn is under control, which is less than a case in a thousand living births. The disease has been eliminated in Punjab (2016), Sindh (December 2024), Islamabad Capital Territory and Pakistan -administered Kashmir (March 2025).

Nevertheless, the important space remains. Anemia is affected by 41.7 % of Pakistani women between the ages of 15 to 49, and many people lack pre -birth care, skilled birth colleagues, emergency care and access to postpartum aid.

The Kovide 19 pandemic diseases further affected maternal health services, which reduces access to institutional supply and life -saving care, especially in remote areas.

The UN report emphasizes that many maternity and newborn deaths can be prevented by midwifery, family planning, nutrition, mental health, and women’s education and empowerment. It also recommends increasing domestic health budgets for restoration of international funds and reconstruction of essential services.

The report warns, “A 15 -year -old girl in Pakistan is at risk of 1 in 80 deaths due to maternity reasons, while in high -income countries, only 1 in 5,600.”

Globally, maternal mortality has decreased by 40 % since 2000, but the current speed is very slow to meet the targets of 2030. To return to the track, the proportion of global maternal mortality should be reduced by 15 tent times faster than the current pace.

Those who endorsed their commitment to support Pakistan, “health supply for all, not to leave anyone behind”, and emphasized that ensuring the survival of mothers and newborns is not only the priority of health but also the basis of economic and social development.

Pakistan has been included in four countries – combined with Nigeria, India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – which is about half of the world’s worldwide deaths in 2023, according to data released on Monday, which has a strong support for the US and the UK.

Three UN agencies said in a joint report that maternity deaths are related to the birth or complications of pregnancy during pregnancy.

On April 7, trends were published in the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The report states that Nigeria has the highest maternity deaths, and in 2023, all the deaths of global maternity were more than a quarter (28.7 %), with about 75 75,000 deaths.

In 2023, only three other countries had more than 10,000 maternity deaths – India and the DRC signed a contract with 19,000, of which Pakistan had a total of 11,000. India and the DRC increased by 7.2 %, while Pakistan contributed 4.1 percent of global maternity deaths.

Since financing aid countries are forced to return important services for maternity, newborn and children’s health, UN agencies appeal immediate action to prevent maternity deaths, especially in humanitarian Settings, where the number is already dangerous.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhnum Ghaybases said in a statement, “Although this report reflects hopelessness, the figures also highlight how dangerous the world’s pregnancy is still.

“In addition to ensuring access to standard maternity care, it would also be necessary to strengthen the basic health and reproductive rights of women and girls. Factors that affect their chances of healthy results during and beyond pregnancy.”

The report also provides the first global account on the effects of Covid-19 pandemic diseases on maternity survival.

It is estimated that in 2021, 40,000 more women died due to pregnancy or childbirth, which increased to 282,000 in 2022 and 322,000 next year.

This increase highlights the importance of ensuring not only due to direct complications due to covide 19, but also in maternity services, ensuring that it is available during epidemic and other emergency conditions.

“When a mother dies in pregnancy or baby birth, her baby’s life is also at risk,” said Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF. Often, both are lost because we know how to prevent it. “

He added that with a decline in financial support globally, especially in the most critical settings, “the world will have to invest in midwives, nurses and health workers of the community immediately to ensure that every mother and child will have the opportunity to survive and flourish.”

The report highlights the permanent inequality between the regions and the countries as well as uneven progress. Maternity deaths have decreased by 40 % between 2000 and 2023, with all the Saharan Africa gaining significant benefits. It was only in three areas of the United Nations to watch important drops since 2015, and others with Australia and New Zealand and Central and South Asia.

Nevertheless, the Sahara Africa participated in 2023 of the global maternity burden in 2023 due to high rates of poverty and numerous conflicts.

Meanwhile, five regions saw progress since 2015: North Africa and Western Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand), Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Natalia Kanim, the executive director of the UNFPA, maintained that access to standard maternity health services is a right, not a privilege. He called for immediate responsibility for the construction of a health -related health system, which protects the lives of pregnant women and newborns.

“By promoting the data needed to identify the supply chains, midwifery workforce, and most risky, we must eliminate and eliminate the tragedy of potential maternity deaths and their tremendous tool on families and societies,” he said.

The report also highlighted the plight of pregnant women living in humanitarian emergency, which faces the most risks globally. Almost two -thirds of global maternity deaths are now found in countries affected by controversy or conflict.

In addition to ensuring important services during pregnancy, birth and post -birth period, this report emphasizes the importance of efforts to enhance women’s overall health, as well as preventing basic health conditions, including anemia, malaria and abnormal diseases. In addition, the report emphasizes the need to ensure that girls are in school, and that they and women have knowledge and resources to protect their health.