On the other hand, majority of maternal and newborn deaths are caused by complications or conditions that could be prevented or more effectively managed through inexpensive, low-technology measures. Majority of maternal and new born care deaths were followed by unskilled delivery attended at home. A study conducted in Basra about reasons reported by women who delivered at home for preferring home delivery have shown that social support and privacy was the predominant reason given by 98.2% of the women who had home delivery of their present child. Fear of interventions and repeated examinations at hospitals was the concern of 71.9% of the women who preferred home delivery. About 17.5% had an unplanned home delivery as a result of quick labor or the security situation did not allow transfer to hospital.