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16 Mar 2022 Maternal Mortality Rate: India

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Recently, the Office of the Registrar General’s Sample Registration System (SRS) has issued a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in India in the year 2017-19.
According to the World Health Organisation, maternal death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy from any cause related to pregnancy or its management.
Maternal mortality rate (MMR) is the death of mothers per one lakh live births.

It works under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
It also provides estimates of fertility and mortality rates using the Sample Registration System (SRS) in addition to computing the population and implementing the registration of deaths and births in the country.
The SRS is the largest demographic sample survey in the country in which other indicators provide a direct estimate of maternal mortality through a nationally representative sample.
Verbal Autopsy-VA devices are administered for deaths recorded under SRS on a regular basis, to ascertain the mortality rate due to a specific cause in the country.

India’s maternal mortality rate has declined by 10 points. It has come down from 113 in 2016-18 to 103 (8.8% decline) in 2017-18.
Progressive reduction in MMR in the country was observed in the year 2014-2016 to 130 in the year 2015-17, 122 in the year 2016-18 and 103 in the year 2017-19.
India was close to achieving the National Health Policy (NHP) target of 100/million live births by 2020 and certainly on track to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals of 70/million live births by 2030.
Many developed countries have successfully brought down MMR to single digits. Italy, Norway, Poland and Belarus have the minimum MMR of two, while Germany and the UK both have it at seven, Canada has 10 and the US has 19.
Most of India’s neighbouring countries—Nepal (186), Bangladesh (173) and Pakistan (140)—have a higher MMR. However, China and Sri Lanka are in a much better position with 18.3 and 36 MMR respectively.

The number of states achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has now increased from five to seven, these are- Kerala (30), Maharashtra (38), Telangana (56), Tamil Nadu (58), Andhra Pradesh (58), Jharkhand (61) and Gujarat (70).
Kerala has recorded the lowest MMR which puts Kerala ahead of the national MMR of 103.
Kerala’s maternal mortality rate has declined by 12 points. The previous SRS bulletin (2015-17) had put the state’s MMR at 42, which was later adjusted to 43.
Now there are nine states which have achieved the MMR target set by the National Health Policy, which includes the above seven and Karnataka (83) and Haryana (96).
Uttarakhand (101), West Bengal (109), Punjab (114), Bihar (130), Odisha (136) and Rajasthan (141) have MMR between 100-150, while Chhattisgarh (160), Madhya Pradesh (163), Uttar Pradesh (167) and Assam (205) have MMR above 150.

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Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) 9th of every month has been fixed as a fixed date for assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care to pregnant women.
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