Health in the Comoros
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Health in the Comoros continues to face
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[2] finds that Comoros is fulfilling 64.2% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income.[3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Comoros achieves 86.7% of what is expected based on its current income.[4] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 84.1% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. [5] Comoros falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 21.6% of what the nation is expected to achieve based on the resources (income) it has available.[6]
Maternal and child health care
The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for the Comoros is 340. This is compared with 225.3 in 2008 and 449.9 in 1990. The under 5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births is 105 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under 5's mortality is 35. In the Comoros the number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 9 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women 1 in 71.[7]
Life expectancy at birth was estimated at fifty-six years in 1990, up from fifty-one years in 1980.[1] The crude birthrate was forty-eight per 1,000 and the crude death rate, twelve per 1,000 according to 1989 statistics.[1] All three of these figures were close to the averages for sub-Saharan Africa.[1] The rate of infant mortality per 1,000 live births was eighty-nine in 1991, down from 113 in 1980.[1] The 1990 average rate for sub-Saharan Africa was 107.[1]
Disease
Per capita daily
The World Bank estimated that in 1993 the Comoros had one physician per 6,582 Comorans, a marked improvement over the ratio of one to 13,810 reported in 1983.[1] Comparable data for sub-Saharan Africa as a whole were not available; however, it appeared that Comorans enjoyed a more favorable ratio than many of their neighbors in East Africa and the Indian Ocean.[1]
Despite improvements in life expectancy, infant mortality, and the number of physicians, the overall quality of care remained poor.
Although the Comoros lacks homegrown
Healthcare
In 2006, there were 15 physicians per 100,000 people. The
There are two district, two provincial and one regional hospitals in Comoros. These hospitals are supplemented by 52 health posts and 12 health centers.[9]
The hospitals include the following:[10]
- El-Maarouf National Hospital Center,
- Regional Hospital Foumbouni, Grand Comore[13]
- Regional Hospital Mitsamiouli, Grand Comore[13]
- Caritas Hospital, Grand Comore[12]
- Hospital of Moidja Hamahamet, Grand Comore
- Hospital of Nioumamilima Badjini, Grand Comore
- Samba-Kouni Hospital Center, Grand Comore[14]
- Mkazi Health Post, Grand Comore[13]
- Tsinimoichongo Health Post, Grand Comore[13]
- Hospital Center Ouani, Ouani, Anjouan
- Hospital of Domoni, Domoni, Anjouan
- Mutsamudu Hospital, Mutsamudu, Anjouan[15]
- Regional Hospital Center of Djando, Wanani, Mohéli
- International Hospital, Grand Comore
- Nioumachoua Health Center, Nioumachoua, Mohéli[13]
References
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- ^ "Comoros - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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- ^ "Comoros - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ "The State Of The World's Midwifery". United Nations Population Fund. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
- ^ "Country Health System Fact Sheet, Comoros" (PDF). World Health Organization. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Comoros" (PDF). WHO. 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ Google maps database
- ^ "About us, El-Maarouf National Hospital Center". El-Maarouf National Hospital Center (in French). Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ a b "Expansion in Comoros". Australian Doctors for Africa. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "WHO donates emergency trauma kits to the Ministry of Health in Comoros". WHO Africa. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ "Modern Contraceptives helped me plan my family without side effects better". UN Fund for Population Activities. 11 July 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ "Mutsamudu Hospital". Hospitalby. Retrieved January 9, 2021.