National Safe Motherhood Day - April 11
April 13 , 2021
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- National Safe Motherhood Day is an initiative of the White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI).
- It is to enforce that women must have availability and adequate access to care during pregnancy childbirth and postnatal services.
- The day also marks the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi.
- Kasturba Gandhi is the wife of the father of Nation Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi.
- At the request of WRAI, an alliance of 1800 organizations, in 2003, the Government of India declared April 11th as National Safe Motherhood Day.
- India is the 1st country in the world to have socially declared a National Safe Motherhood Day.
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