Madhya Pradesh awarded for reducing maternal mortality
July 2 , 2018 2260 days 864 0
Madhya Pradesh was awarded by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for reducing maternal mortality under Prime Minister’s Safe Motherhood Campaign (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan-PMSMA).
The state was awarded for registering unprecedented 48-digit decline in maternal deaths from 2014 to 2016 as per report of Registrar General of India (RGI).
The maternal mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh was 221 in 2011-13, which has now dropped down further to just 173.
This accounts to significant 22% decline in the last three years in the state.
PMSMA was launched by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to provide free health check-ups to pregnant women at government health centres and hospitals in both rural and urban areas.