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JAMAICA: Better Health Care Needed to Lower Maternal Mortality
The Jamaica Gleaner reported on 28 October that Jamaica is not likely to reach the 2015 goal of lowering maternal mortality if health care does not improve for pregnant mothers. According to Dan Baker, of UNFPA, poor health care continues to be a mitigating factor for the progress of MDG 4, which looks at reducing child mortality. "It is going to take a lot because the things that UNFPA said will reduce maternal deaths are family planning, access to trained attendance at birth and access to emergency obstetrics care, and all of those indicators are good ... but what is needed is a lot of investments in providing quality health care in the health system," he said. Read: Jamaica Gleaner