Unfortunately, in LMICs the situation does not seem to be better. A detailed review of 2882 deaths of women during pregnancy, or up to 42 days postpartum, conducted in three provinces in Vietnam, found that 29% of those deaths were attributed to non-natural causes (suicide, murder and accidents) of which 14% were due to suicide (65). An enlarged study conducted by the WHO, covering seven provinces in Vietnam, confirmed the high percentage of suicides among women in the perinatal period: 8% to , depending on the province (66). Lal et al. (67) examined 219 deaths of mothers after 9894.
