Minister Admits Misinforming Assembly On Maternal Deaths – The Standard Newspaper

Maternal Mortality Figures Revised After Data Extraction Error

The admission by The Gambia’s Minister of Health, Dr. Amadou Samateh, before the National Assembly raises both reassurance and concern in equal measure—reassurance that the error was identified and corrected, and concern that such a critical statistic could be misreported at all in the first place. Maternal mortality is not an abstract indicator; it is one of the most sensitive measures of a country’s health system performance. In his clarificat…

Minister Admits Misinforming Assembly On Maternal Deaths – The Standard Newspaper

By Tabora Bojang Health Minister Dr Ahmad Lamin Samateh yesterday admitted there was an “arithmetic error” in the 2025 maternal mortality ratio he provided to the National Assembly in March, saying the officers responsible for providing him this inaccurate information have been reprimanded. During his appearance yesterday the minister said the figure he gave the Assembly was “inaccurate” and that his ministry had immediately reached out to the C…

Wrong maternal mortality figure traced to human error, Minister admits

Responding before lawmakers, Samateh said the error occurred during the retrieval of information from the ministry’s DHIS2 health information platform. “The error arose during the data retrieval process from the DHIS-2 platform leading to inadvertent presentation of the institutional maternal mortality ratio as the total maternal mortality ratio,” the minister said. According to the minister, the wrong variable was used when data was extracted f…