Objective: To quantify the incidence of and contributing elements to pregnant women’s delayed use of emergency obstetric care. Method: Within a year, facility-based cross-sectional research employing a quantitative technique was carried out at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi. With the use of a single population proportion formula, a sample size of 250 was established. Epi Info version 3.3.2 software was used to enter data that was afterwards exported to SPSS version 20 for statistical analysis. With a 95% confidence interval, a variable is declared statistically significant if P <0.05. Results: Of the 250 participants, 203 respondents (27.2%) stated that they had difficulty deciding whether to seek emergency obstetric treatment. With a range of 30 minutes to 18 hours, the average delay duration was 90 minutes. Age of the mother, amount of education, monthly income, and ANC follow-up status all had a significant impact on whether a mother delayed seeking emergency obstetric treatment. Conclusion: Husbands used the lines to discuss choosing to get obstetric treatment. This suggests that women have little autonomy in making health-related decisions for themselves. Health extension workers, health centre staff, district officers, and programmers should place an emphasis on raising awareness, developing income-generating mechanisms, and enhancing mothers’ capacity for decision-making to address maternal delay one.

Objective: To quantify the incidence of and contributing elements to pregnant women’s delayed use of emergency obstetric care. Method: Within a year, facility-based cross-sectional research employing a quantitative technique was carried out at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi. With the use of a single population proportion formula, a sample size of 250 was established. Epi Info version 3.3.2 software was used to enter data that was afterwards exported to SPSS version 20 for statistical analysis. With a 95% confidence interval, a variable is declared statistically significant if P <0.05. Results: Of the 250 participants, 203 respondents (27.2%) stated that they had difficulty deciding whether to seek emergency obstetric treatment. With a range of 30 minutes to 18 hours, the average delay duration was 90 minutes. Age of the mother, amount of education, monthly income, and ANC follow-up status all had a significant impact on whether a mother delayed seeking emergency obstetric treatment. Conclusion: Husbands used the lines to discuss choosing to get obstetric treatment. This suggests that women have little autonomy in making health-related decisions for themselves. Health extension workers, health centre staff, district officers, and programmers should place an emphasis on raising awareness, developing income-generating mechanisms, and enhancing mothers’ capacity for decision-making to address maternal delay one.