The death of a woman after delivering a child has brought to fore Jharkhand’s poor maternal health status. Chandramuni Kumari, a tribal resident of Ranchi’s Namkum, died on February 20 after delivering a healthy girl child. 

Ironically, she was one of Jharkhand’s 40,964 Sahiyyas, who are Accredited Social Health Activist for assisting pregnant women.


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Sri Lanka had the lowest maternity mortality rate in South Asia, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said last week. Quoting a maternity mortality report compiled by emergency, obstetrics and Neo-natal   
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With an aim to set up a quality assurance system in state health facilities, NRHM authorities will organize a two-day workshop on January 27 and 28 in Lucknow for district women hospitals and 121 rural health units.

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With the goal of bringing down maternal and infant mortality rates to acceptable levels within next three years, the State Government has decided to intensify interventions under the reproductive, maternal, newborn child and adolescent health (RMCH+A) programme in 10 high priority districts (HPDs).   
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Lakshmi, a homemaker from Periyapatna, who delivered her first child at government-run Chaluvamba Hospital here years ago, chose the same hospital for her second delivery, the lack of privacy notwithstanding.The 27-year-old Lakshmi was one of 200 new mothers crammed into the wards of the century-old hospital, which sees, on an average, 40 new babies coming into the world daily. The rate at which deliveries happen at the hospital makes it Karnataka's busiest maternity ward.

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Goa and Manipur may have knocked Kerala off the pedestal, but at 12 deaths among children less than one year of age per 1,000 live births, Kerala still has an enviably low infant mortality rate (IMR); it is far below India’s average of 42. Yet, for years, the southern State has been unable to reduce the mortality rate further to a single-digit figure to become comparable with the developed countries. Kerala has always been at the forefront in setting the benchmark for almost all the health indices.Source: The Hindu 
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