Table 2 Information about cases of maternal death and the delays in getting emergency health care
From: Maternal deaths in eastern Indonesia: 20 years and still walking: an ethnographic study
Case | First delay | Second delay | Third delay – adequate care | Time from delivery to death | Age of woman | Prior live births | High risk? | Antenatal care? | Married? | Baby survived? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
→in decision to seek care | – in reaching care |  | ||||||||||
| Â | Emergency recognised? | Was help sought? | Delays in transmitting message seeking help? | Delays in help arriving? | Was care effective? | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
1 | Delayed | Yes | Yes, walked to traditional birth attendant | Yes, walked | No care received | 3 hour | 20 | 0 | No | No | No | Yes |
3 | Delayed | Yes | Yes, walked | Yes, walked | No care received | 4 days | 27 | 0 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
4 | Delayed | No, wet season travel too difficult | No care sought | No care received | 5 days | 29 | 0 | No | Yes | Yes | 2 months | Â |
7 | Yes | No, ashamed | No care sought | No care received | 1 day | 28 | 0 | No | No | No | Yes | Â |
8 | Yes | Yes, delayed, cadre said wait until dawn | No, midwife phoned (at dawn) | No, midwife came immediately by motorbike, arrived after death | No care received | Â | 24 | 1 | No | Yes | Yes ^ | Yes |
6 | Yes | Yes | Yes, walked to midwife | Yes, midwife at another birth | No care received | 1 hour | Â | 3 | No | Yes | Yes # | Yes |
5 | Yes* | Yes | No, phoned clinic | Yes, ambulance broke down | No care received | 2 days | Â | 4 | Yes, twins | Yes | Yes | Survived birth, one died later |
2 | Yes | Yes | Some delay, motorbike to clinic | No | Hospital care not successful | 2 days | 27 | 3 | Yes, prior illness | Yes | Yes | 1 hour |