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Daily Monitor Saturday April 17 2021 Left: A health worker explains to an expectant mother why she needs to regularly visit the health centre for antenatal services at UMC Hospital in Mukono. PHOTO/Promise Twinamukye Summary Excessive bleeding accounts for 46 per cent of all registered maternal deaths. Hypertensive disorders stand at 11 per cent, followed by infection of the genital tract and abortion related complications. Advertisement In 2017, Catherine Akol, a resident of Jimos village, Losilang Parish, in Kotido District, Karamoja region delivered her first born by a caesarean section. She was advised to have her next baby in a hospital. In the wee hours of January 17, 2020, a semblance of labour started. Since the pain was not intense, she and her husband Henry Angelo embarked on the journey to Kotido Health Centre IV . ....