Maternal Health

Indian Public Health Standards & Right to Health: A Case Study of Raga Primary Health Centre

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Amongst the various persisting health problems in India, one of the most pressing – both as a public health and as a human rights issue – is the lack of equal access to basic healthcare facilities. Despite a considerable progress, newly introduced government programmes and schemes ..... Read More

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Assessment of Implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojna

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Maternal death is one of the biggest issues of concern in India. To combat the increasing maternal mortality rate (MMR), and to provide basic primary health care delivery system in rural areas, Government of India (GOI) introduced National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 which is now ..... Read More

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Mother Forced to sell her baby – Chirang

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Even though Indian government has adopted schemes and program providing safe motherhood period to women but there is huge gap in the implementation of the schemes. One such instance we witness where a women was compelled to sell off her new born baby in order to pay her ..... Read More

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Non implementation of IPHS, JSB Hospital

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The Indian Constitution provides right to health as one of the fundamental rights in corollary to right to life. Yet people are deprived of the basic health services. This leads to the violations for their fundamental rights, non implementation of Supreme Court orders on maternal health and provisions of ..... Read More

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Maternal Health Service – Sonitpur

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In yet another fact finding conducted by Human Rights Law Network in Sonitpur, Assam, a clear violation of a woman’s fundamental rights enshrined in schemes, the Constitution of India, and international lawwas observed. The fact finding team visited Rajini Satwal’s family in Sonitpur District and found ..... Read More

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