World leaders have called for a halt to the needless deaths of 10 million women and girls who die each generation during pregnancy and childbirth, and four million newborn babies who die every year.

This was the main resolve of the leaders that included 100 cabinet ministers and UN officials when they met at an anti-maternal mortality conference dubbed “Women Deliver” that held in London recently.

The meeting that brought together delegates from 75 countries and 1,500 decision-makers was crucial given that it charted more strategies of strengthening the health system and creating the political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world.

The main point of focus was the developing countries where little efforts are being made by the leaders to reverse the tragedy of child and maternal mortality.The call was made to world leaders to seek to reverse the nightmare in order not to make complete nonsense of UN Millennium Development Goals numbers four and five that call for a huge reduction of child mortality and the improvement of maternal health.