Olaleke Janet Olusola1, Iroju Olaronke Ganiat2, and Ogunmosin Adekunle Ekundayo3
1 Department of Computer Science, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria
2 Department of Computer Science, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria
3 Chief Medical Officer, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, NIgeria
Original language: English
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Abstract
Maternal mortality remains a major issue affecting women of reproductive age across Nigeria. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 1047 women died per 100,000 due to pregnancy and childbirth complications in Nigeria. From the foregoing, Nigeria contributes to about 19% of global maternal death, still births and neonatal deaths. Hence, Nigeria is ranked the third nation with high maternal and child death with South Sudan and Chad taking the lead respectively. There are however variations in the levels of maternal mortality in the Northern and Southern Nigeria. Maternal mortality is more pronounced in the North than the Southern part of Nigeria. In the south western part of Nigeria, Ondo state had the worst maternal and child care indices in 2008. The Ondo state government put a lot of efforts towards reducing maternal mortality in the state. These efforts include the launching of the safe motherhood (abiye) project in 2009. Despite the efforts geared towards the reduction of maternal mortality in Ondo state, the maternal mortality ratio still remains abysmally high. Hence, this study develops a system for remotely monitoring the health of pregnant women in the state. The system was tested using sixty pregnant women in fourteen Local Government Areas of Ondo state, Nigeria, with accuracy, precision and recall as the performance metrics. The system recorded an accuracy of 95.24%, a precicion of 96.67% and a recall of 98.31%.
Author Keywords: maternal mortality, maternal mortality ratio, remote patient monitoring, pregnancy, Nigeria.
