Maternal & Neo-natal Care

Challenges

  • Inequitable Access: Unfair distribution of access to high-quality maternity and newborn health treatments, particularly for the most underprivileged and excluded groups, like tribal villages and urban slums.
  • Low Coverage: Low coverage of crucial interventions such skilled birth attendance, early and exclusive breastfeeding, emergency obstetric care, and postpartum care.
  • High Burden: The majority of infant deaths in India are caused by infections, birth abnormalities, and premature births.
  • Socio-cultural Barriers: Socio-cultural barriers and gender discrimination have an impact on mothers' and newborns behaviours when seeking treatment as well as their health outcomes, particularly for girls.

Suggestions

  • Increasing Access: Improving primary health care systems, ....
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