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Madhya Pradesh awarded for reducing maternal mortality

July 2 , 2018 2338 days 948 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.

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