The Paraná recorded in the last two years, a reduction of 41.87% in the maternal mortality rate. The number was presented by Governor Beto Richa, on Tuesday (07/05), during the First State Paranaense Mother Network, which brought together 2000 health professionals in Curitiba.

Between 1990 and 2000, the decline in maternal mortality in Paraná was 26%. Between 2001 and 2010 the reduction was almost negligible: less than 2%. The reduction is mainly because the implementation of Network Mother Paranaense, who is doing a year sustains the State Secretary of Health, Michele Caputo Neto

According to figures from the secretary, infant mortality in Paraná fell 4% in 2012, registering 11.6 deaths per thousand live births, while the national average is 15.6 per thousand live births. "As the Curitiba Mother, Mother Paranaense is becoming an example of public health in Brazil," he said.

The great advantage of the program is the care for pregnant women and babies. The State guarantees a set of actions that involve early identification of pregnant women, prenatal monitoring, conducting 17 examinations, risk classification of pregnant women and children, ensuring specialized clinic for pregnant women and children at risk, guarantee delivery by means a system linking the hospital as gestational risk and monitoring of all children under one year.

In 2012, we invested R $ 90 million in network roll-out, with the training of primary care professionals and the strengthening of referral hospitals for high risk pregnancies through the program HospSUS. For this year, are expected £ 126 million for the binding of 87 hospitals and centers consolidation Mother Paranaense in the 22 consortiums health.

One of the insured's Hospital Christ the King, whose maternity will be microregional reference to deliveries at intermediate risk of seven counties: May Day, Daybreak South, Bela Vista do Paraíso, Sertanópolis, Jataizinho, Assai and Ibiporã. I am eager for accreditation. As we have incentives for labor performed, we can enable the hiring of more professional, said the executive director of the hospital, Ana Lucia Fabro Mosque. The number of births in the maternity ward should rise from 50 to over 70 per month.

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