Maternal mortality rate increases sharply in N. Korea

Yonhap 10/15/2007 *View the UN report here The number of North Korean women who have died while giving birth rose drastically in 2005 from five years earlier due to worsening health care conditions in the impoverished communist state, a report said Monday. Maternal mortality rose to 370 per 100,000 births in 2005 from 67 in … Continue reading Maternal mortality rate increases sharply in N. Korea