A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in 2015, there were more than 45,000 deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the country. This figure accounts for 15% of such casualties worldwide. A crippling lack of maternal health care services and skilled birth attendants has lead to India missing its millennium development goal of reducing the maternal mortality rate by three-quarters. Luckily, one organisation based in Mumbai has been working to help vulnerable mothers who don’t have access to immediate healthcare. A start-up called Care NX was launched in 2013 by an NGO called Science for Society. They noticed that high-risk pregnancies are the leading cause of maternal mortality in India. And early medical intervention could bring down this risk greatly.

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