Maternal Mortality Maternal mortality has remained as an issue of great concern both in our national, state and district agenda, augmented with the launch of NRHM and focus on SMDGs and especially with the change in the political scenario both at the national and stae level. For many decades, there has been a single focus “on fertility regulation” it viewed women’s health with a narrow perspective, as limited to their reproductive period between 13-45 years of age.
The tragedy of maternal mortality affects mainly the poorer sections of the society and the statistical data was always in chaos with limitations in keeping of the mortality records. This chaos had been overcome with the effective implantation of the NRHM initiative of Maternal Death Review tool, which provides very substantial data /information for study A close scrutiny of the information from MDR offers us many visible and…
