•Problems attributed to individual patients and socio-cultural factors inhibiting accessibility to maternal healthcare services include;

•Availability, convenience and confidence in traditional healthcare providers;

•Skepticisms, myths and misconceptions about conventional maternal healthcare services.

•Traditional beliefs about expectant mothers and newborns and Non-adherence to treatment regimen for antenatal and postnatal care.

•Existence of retrogressive socio-cultural factors and traditions affecting health seeking behavior of maternal care mothers.

•Prevalence of patrichial societies where male members of the socienty control resources and make critical decisions regarding healthcare.