Health

Wider Choices Vital For Safe Motherhood

by The Daily Eye Team April 17 2015, 5:36 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secs

India has made commendable progress towards ensuring safe motherhood for women in recent years.                                                           

However, any satisfaction one may derive from the steep decline in maternal mortality ratio (MMR) from 398 per 1,00,000 live births in 1998 to 167 in 2013 is tempered by the fact that the country still accounts for 17 per cent of all global maternal deaths.

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