Results
Over two years, 341 stillbirths were documented at the National Referral
Hospital. During the same period, there were 11,056 live births, giving
an institutional incidence of stillbirth of 30.8 per 1,000 births. Of
341 recorded cases, suspected cause of death was available for 198 and
142 maternal full case files were available for full review (Table 1).
Among the 142 case files available, 72% were thought to be preventable
and there were five associated cases of maternal death.