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Costs of Unsafe Abortions

Dr. Singh said the report's findings "provide further evidence about the number of women who suffer injury as a result of complications due to unsafe abortion, often leading to chronic disability."

"Extreme hemorrhage, a lot of bleeding, up to a perforation of a uterus or an infection that is at least a high grade fever, sepsis even. Lacerations depending on if the woman inserts an object into her vagina. There are different categories of complications from the less severe up to the most severe and life threatening." She said.

The study estimated the annual cost of treating women for complications of unsafe abortions is $232 million. But that's just for those who actually go for treatment. It estimated the cost for treating all the women who actually need it would be more than $560 million.

Singh said, "The quality of the care for the 232 million is what are they getting right now – which is not as WHO recommends such care should be. We all know that quality of care varies a lot across the world. Perhaps it's not that the country or the government or the provider doesn't want to give good quality care, but they may not have the training or the facilities, the capacity, to do it."

The findings, she said, show the importance of prevention for women.

"Better contraceptive counseling and services, a better range of choice of methods, a follow-up of women if they have a problem with a method to offer them something else. This set of services at a good quality would help women to prevent the unintended pregnancy in the first place, which would avoid having to resort to an abortion."