PESHAWAR, May 11: A number of women die during pregnancy- related complication in Pakistan every day, said PML-Q, MPA, Dr Semin Mehmood Jan, at a function organized by the Social Marketing Pakistan in collaboration with the Employee Education Foundation, Public School, to observe the Mother’s Day here on Sunday.

Dr Semin Mehmood Jan said that the MMA-led government’s decision that women patients be examined by female doctors, was bound to create problems for women, because of the less number of female doctors in the province.

She said the decision would backfire and the mothers-would-be would die of complications.

Out of 100,000 pregnant women in Pakistan 500 die, owing to lack of health-care facilities at public sector hospitals, she said.

She said that the mothers, should be given priority in food, health and education, because they were the ones who managed houses and took care of their children.

The mothers, she said were responsible for the upbringing of their children.

Another speaker, Dr Mohammad Zakir, emphasised the need to take care of nutritional requirements of pregnant women.