In Orissa, only one ambulance is available to transport all the pregnant women of one block. In India, pregnancy continues to put women’s lives under threat. According to UNICEF, each year, 78000 women die in childbirth from complications of pregnancy in India. Every five minutes, one women dies of preventable pregnancy related causes somewhere in the country. To tackle the issue and reduce maternal and neonatal care, the Janani Suraksha Yojana scheme — “Pregnant Women Safety Scheme” was launched in 2005 under the National Rural Health Mission. The scheme aims at encouraging institutional delivery in government hospitals, by providing free transportation and free drugs to pregnant women and free treatment for sick newborns. The scheme has been implemented all over India, but major flaws persist, and delivery remains a detrimental moment for women and their babies. In Orissa, home of our Community Correspondent Sarita, a problem with this scheme lies in the limited number of ambulances that have been made available to transport women to the hospital. Indeed, there is only one ambulance for every block of villages. Since villages are spread out and distances are far, the ambulance is rarely available when needed and many women have to find other forms of transport to reach the hospital, jeopardising their lives and those of their unborn babies. In May this year, a woman gave birth to a stillborn child after being made to wait for transportation. Another woman, who even …
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Due to the illiteracy and lack of information, maternal mortality rate remains unacceptably high during baby delivery and after. People are still not aware of their risk of birth delivery in remote community in Cambodia, and they still use a traditional midwife rather than a professional doctor at the hospital. Government, civil society, and non-government organization (NGOs) tried its best to provide education for people on birth spacing, condom use, and reproductive health care. Mr. Phorn played a role model in this village to bring his wife to the hospital. Mother and child are rescued…….
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