A maternal death every 10 min in India, likely to miss MDG says UN
Posted by Pushpendra Singh Rajput at 7:52 pm 0 Comment Print
New Delhi, Jul 2:
India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one maternal death is being reported every 10 minutes in the country now.
India recorded around 57,000 maternal deaths in 2010, which translate into a whopping six every hour and one every 10 minutes, UN data in this regard says.
The current Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) of India is 212 per one lakh live births, whereas the country’s MDG in this respect is 109 per one lakh live births by 2015.
via A maternal death every 10 min in India, likely to miss MDG says UN.
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