Principal Midwife at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital), Felicia Mantey Dodoo, has raised concern about one of Ghana's deadliest pregnancy complications preeclampsia and eclampsia; warning that they remain the leading causes of maternal and infant deaths.
In a gbcghanaonline.com report on September 3, 2025, she explained that pregnancy-induced hypertension occurs when a woman develops high blood pressure after 20 weeks of gestation. "When it comes with protein in the urine, that is preeclampsia.
If it progresses to seizures, we call it eclampsia.
These are not caused by anything the mother did wrong.
