Four million children are born in Pakistan every year, the study of a seminar pointed out the southern city Karachi on Tuesday.
Organized by the Department of Population Sciences and Sociology, University of Karachi at the campus, the seminar issued a statement that eight children are born in the country every minute.
It said that about 80 per cent of the births are handled by the traditional birth attendants at home. Because of this a woman dies in every 20 minutes, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan.
The statement further pointed out that the maternal mortality rate is 25,000 to 30,000 every year mostly because of high blood pressure, infection and accidental abortion etc.
In India and Pakistan maternal mortality per 100,000 is over 500 and 350 in Bangladesh, 41 in Malaysia, 92 in Sri Lanka and 76 in Iran. As many as 160,000 to 200,000 new born babies die every year in the country.
According to Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat, chairman of the Department, the main causes of death of women at the childbirth are high birth rate, anemia, untrained traditional birth attendants, lack of health facilities, ignorance etc.