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National Safe Motherhood day – April 11
April 14 , 2020
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- It is observed to raise awareness about the proper healthcare of women and maternity facilities to pregnant and lactating women.
- It is an initiative of the White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI).
- The government of India declared in 2003 the national safe motherhood day on April 11.
- India is the 1st country in the world to have socially declared a National Safe Motherhood Day.
- India is one of the most high-risk places in the world to give birth, accounting for 15% of total maternal deaths worldwide.
- On the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi, the national safe motherhood day is observed every year.
- Kasturba Gandhi is the wife of the father of Nation Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi.
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