Breaking News! Though India boasts of its development with a dramatic change in health care, around 1,000 women die every day for having complications during pregnancy and child birth. The maternal mortality rate is 36 times higher compared to a developed country, reported the United Nations (UN).
According to the report, which was released ahead of the Millennium Development Goals Summit (MDG) meeting, the maternal mortality (MMR) rate has been decreased by 34% from an estimated 5, 46,000 in 1990 to 3, 58,000 in 2008, but India is still home to the highest number of such case across the world.
The report came jointly by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and World Bank, just days before Who's Who of the Planet meet at New York stating that the annual rate of decline is less than half of its target. The MDG targets the reduction of the MMR by 75% between 1990 and 2015.
The report said that shockingly, pregnant women still die from the major causes like severe bleeding after childbirth, infections, hypertensive disorders and unsafe abortion.
Particularly, women in rural areas and poorer households, women from ethnic minorities and indigenous groups, and women living with HIV and in conflict zones, are worst the victim during pregnancy and delivery.
Therefore, to reach at the goal to minimize the MMR, the country should reach those who are most at risk, said Anthony Lake, UNICEF chief.
According to the report, which was released ahead of the Millennium Development Goals Summit (MDG) meeting, the maternal mortality (MMR) rate has been decreased by 34% from an estimated 5, 46,000 in 1990 to 3, 58,000 in 2008, but India is still home to the highest number of such case across the world.
The report came jointly by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and World Bank, just days before Who's Who of the Planet meet at New York stating that the annual rate of decline is less than half of its target. The MDG targets the reduction of the MMR by 75% between 1990 and 2015.
The report said that shockingly, pregnant women still die from the major causes like severe bleeding after childbirth, infections, hypertensive disorders and unsafe abortion.
Particularly, women in rural areas and poorer households, women from ethnic minorities and indigenous groups, and women living with HIV and in conflict zones, are worst the victim during pregnancy and delivery.
Therefore, to reach at the goal to minimize the MMR, the country should reach those who are most at risk, said Anthony Lake, UNICEF chief.
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