Maternal mortality in the first year of the new millennium at the University Of Port Harcourt teaching hospital, Nigeria
Aim: To highlight the tragedy posed by unbooked obstetric emergencies.Method: All the obstetric deaths in the year 2000 were recorded.Analyses were made of such aspects as distribution of death according to booking status, major direct obstetric causes of death, state of mother and baby on admission, duration of stay and mode of delivery in hospita