India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio has declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20, come in news when union minister Mansukh Mandaviya also by press release the registrar general of India.
According to the special bulletin release Maternal mortality in a region is a measure of the reproductive health of women in the area. Many women of reproductive age die due to complications during and following pregnancy and childbirth or abortion.World health organisation recognise maternal death as and when a woman is died within 42 days of termination of pregnancy.
Indian government deserves a round of applause for decreasing the maternal death. However India still needs long way to go as there are certain countries like Finland, Greece, Iceland, and Poland which have very low maternal mortality ratio. For every 100,000 births, 3 mothers die.
While the first case Indian government was in the play, in the second it is the Supreme Court of India. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ordered the issue of the notice to the central government, states and union territories on a plea seeking the supply of free sanitary napkins for adolescent girls in schools. The petitioner,Varinder Kumar Sharma, argued that inadequate menstrual hygiene management options were a major roadblock to education, with many girls dropping out of school due to lack of access to sanitation facilities and products and the stigma associated with menstruation.This is also a major issue and if the apex court could direct the central or state government to distribute sanitary pads to adolescent girls for free, it would be same revolutionary as was mid day meal. Surely it would, in one way or other, reduce the hurrdels faced by girl just to get basic right of her that is education.Comment your thoughts below.
