Issues

Report on Maternal Mortality and Indian Public Health Standards, Balasore, Odisha

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According to a 2013 report on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, conducted by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) in 2013, “there are still 56,000 maternal deaths each year. About two-thirds of maternal deaths occur in just a few states – Assam, ..... Read More

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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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Situational Analysis of Child Marriages in Assam

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The issue of child marriage is one of the emerging concerns among the developing countries. According to the 2001 census there are 1.5 million girls, in India, under the age of 15 already married. Ignorance, illiteracy, poor health, economic and social backwardness, social practices and ..... 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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