Gujarat has done a little worse than the national average when it comes to achieving decline in the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), according to the Union Health Ministry.
TFR, which signifies the number of children born per woman, fell from 2.8 in 2005 to 2.4 in 2011 in the state, as per the Sample Registration System (SRS) data. Source: Indian Express Read more
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Kerala’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) has shown an impressive drop of 15 points from 2007-09 and now stands at 66, according to the latest Sample Registration Survey (SRS) report 2010-12 published by the Centre.
Source: The Hindu Read more The increasing rate of death of infants and post-natal mothers in the recent years in Kolar district is causing concern among authorities. Anaemia among pregnant women has been attributed as the major reason for this. As many as 512 infants and 36 women in their post-natal period died in the last two years in the district.
Source: The Hindu Read more The increasing rate of death of infants and post-natal mothers in the recent years in Kolar district is causing concern among authorities.
Anaemia among pregnant women has been attributed as the major reason for this. As many as 512 infants and 36 women in their post-natal period died in the last two years in the district. Source: The Hindu Read more The maternal mortality rate in West Bengal has dropped sharply by 20 per cent due to health reforms in the State, latest statistics say.
Quoting a latest survey report prepared by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the Health portfolio, told PTI that the maternal mortality rate (MMR) rate has fallen to 117 per 1 lakh childbirths during 2010-12. Source: The Hindu Read more The latest MMR figures for 2010-2012, released by the Registrar-General of India suggest that the MMR had come down to 178 from 212, an annual decline of 5.7 per cent.
While Kerala has the lowest MMR at 66 as against 81 in 2007-2009 Sample Registration Survey figures, Assam tops the list in absolute numbers with 328 deaths per 1,00,000 live births, though the number has declined by 5.6 per cent from the previous figure of 390. Source: The Hindu Read more Eyeing Central Government funding, the Kochi Corporation is planning to renew maternal health centres in the city. The civic body plans to upgrade 13 of its maternal health centres to Public Health Centres (PHC).
A `9-crore proposal in this regard was submitted to the NUHM for approval. The move is expected to enhance quality healthcare for pregnant women and infants. The proposal is awaiting approval from the Centre and a delegation will visit the city on Friday and Saturday to study the proposal. Source: The Hindu Read more New advocacy toolkit supports scale-up of essential commodities for women’s and children’s12/17/2013 Today marked the launch of a new electronic advocacy toolkit, “Scaling Up Lifesaving Commodities for Women, Children, and Newborns.” The toolkit, developed by PATH and Global Health Visions, is a resource designed to support efforts to translate ten recommendations developed by the UN Commission on Lifesaving Commodities into the national action needed to expand access to essential commodities at scale.
Source: www.globalhealthhub.org Read more In India, haemorrhage, sepsis, obstructed labour and unsafe abortions remain the biggest direct preventable medical causes for maternal deaths. But, the underlying factors, or indirect causes or ‘delays’, in accessing healthcare during pregnancy and childbirth cause many of the maternal and neonatal deaths. Most often these deaths are a result of the inability to recognise danger signs and deciding to seek appropriate medical help for an obstetric emergency, reaching an appropriate obstetric facility and receiving adequate quality of care in such a place.
Source: The Hindu Read more Health Ministry will set up the homes close to healthcare centres to improve access, institutional deliveries
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has planned to set up “birth waiting homes” close to healthcare centres to enable pregnant women in remote areas to gain access to prenatal care as their due date nears. Palanquins or carts are to be used to transport pregnant women across difficult terrain in the bid to improve institutional deliveries. “We have already started hiring palanquins to take women from their homes to healthcare facilities under the National Rural Health Mission and the government pays the men who carry the palanquin,” Anuradha Gupta, Mission Director, NRHM, told The Hindu . The “birth waiting homes” will be constructed within or near the compounds of a health facility. The pregnant woman would be provided all support and incentives to move into these facilities at least a week before her delivery date. Source: The Hindu |
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