The Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG), Mr Peter Kwame Yeboah, has bemoaned the high rate of maternal deaths in the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) zone of the country and blamed the situation on the unproportioned distribution of critical health personnel in the country. In an interview in Accra, Mr Yeboah said currently 450 doctors were needed to bridge the doctor-patient ratio per population requirements in the SADA zone. He said the effect of this acute shortage was felt more in the Upper West and East regions of the country. He cited, for instance, the case in the whole of the Upper West Region where there was only one obstetrician/gynaecologist and advocated for the equitable distribution of health professionals throughout the country to avert avoidable deaths, particularly pregnancy-related ones.