Maternal deaths before and during COVID-19 pandemic: Causes and avoidable factors in a tertiary hospital in South Africa, 2018‒2022

• Ongombe Lunda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alphongombe@yahoo.fr

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7735-5836

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• Lawrence Chauke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-6959

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• Ghada Daef,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Klerksdorp Hospital, Klerksdorp, North West, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9653-0708

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• Gbenga Olorunfemi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6634-8550

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• Nnabuike Chibuoke Ngene

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the Witwatersrand and Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Gauteng Province, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-5836

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