THE gap in maternal mortality rates between black and white women is widening, experts and mothers warned MPs today.
Black mothers are five times more likely to die than white women in pregnancy and up to six weeks after giving birth.
But today the health and social-care committee, led by Tory MP Jeremy Hunt, heard from maternity experts that this disparity is growing.
Maternity-rights campaigner Tinuke Awe told the committee that she feared that future generations could be “10 or 15 times more likely to die, based on the current trajectory.”
Ms Awe is the co-founder of FiveXMore, a campaign set up to try to overturn the mortality statistics for black women in childbirth in Britain.