Blood loss leading cause of maternal deaths-report

Heavy bleeding during pregnancy or labour, is the leading cause for maternal deaths in Rwanda, accounting for 34 percent of deaths, according to the Maternal Deaths Audit, 2010. According to the chairperson of Rwanda Midwives Association, Josephine Murekezi, severe bleeding occurs as a result of various causes, including uterine rupture, a separation through the thickness of the uterine wall at the site of a prior caesarean incision.