Advocates urge declaring maternal mortality a public‑health emergency in Louisiana The Louisiana Center for Health Equity asked the House committee to formally designate maternal mortality a statewide public‑health emergency, citing a maternal mortality rate near 40 per 100,000 live births and pronounced rural, racial and socioeconomic disparities.

Louisiana's maternal mortality rate is alarmingly double the national average, prompting urgent calls for a statewide public-health emergency declaration to save lives.

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