San Antonio Metro Health hosts community event to address Black maternal mortality rates

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Metro Health is taking on a big issue: Black maternal mortality rates.

On average, Black women are four times more likely to die during childbirth. Black babies face an infant mortality rate twice as high as that of white babies.

Metro Health hosted an event Thursday to ensure local Black mothers and moms-to-be have the resources and knowledge they need to buck those trends.

At the Justice and Joy Community Exchange, mothers received necessities like diapers, entered into raffles for breast pumps and strollers and met with others to swap stories and gently used baby items.

Metro Health said the event was aimed at addressing a grim statistic that has existed for decades.

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