Maternal mortality rate i.e. maternal death in India per 100,000 live births is around 136,000 out of 529,000 maternal deaths in entire world in a year, which is about 25.7%. This is greatest burden for any of the single country, WHO reports.
Reduction in maternal mortality It is seen in India that there is a gradual reduction in maternal mortality as well as under 5 child mortality rates over the past few decades. The main objective of reducing maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births was set out in the 11th five year plan.
Clean birth kits: Every year an estimated 1 million newborns and mothers dies from infections soon after giving birth to the child and this burden is highest for poor families. An estimated 60 million women give birth each year not in a health facility and 50 million deliver without assistance from a skilled attendant.
What Exactly Is Affecting A Mother's Health? Researches show frequent pregnancies coupled with closely spaced baby-births affect an Indian women's nutritional status, and this even affect the outcome of such pregnancy like premature or less weighing babies. Most importantly this increases a mother's health hazards. Even unwanted pregnancies' unsafe abortions has diverse effect on women's health too.
India Must Do Something About Its High Mortality-Ratio. Maternal morbidity and even mortality are two prime health-concerns for Indian women. India's mortality ratio as per 1993 was 453 mothers' deaths per hundred thousand babies-births, which is 57 times United States mortality rate. UNICEF and WHO calculated India's this mortality rate is greater than that of SriLanka or Pakistan as per 1996.
Maternal mortality ratio seems to be quite high in India despite of having better medical and health facilities today. Most of the maternal deaths is cause due to infection during child birth. This happens mainly because of unhygienic conditions of maternity hospitals as well as post-maternity care. It can be reduced by providing more post-maternity care, proper hygiene condition etc.
Maternal mortality ratio is the number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth, per 100,000 live births. The maternal mortality has reduced remarkably to 212 per 1,00, 000 live births in 2007-09 from 254 in 2004-06, recording a fall of 42 points or 17%. This is quite an improvement but the country requires to accomplish a target of 109 deaths by 2015 to attain the United Nations-mandated Millennium Development Goals.
