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Five Women Develop Severe Postpartum Complications, Including Kidney Failure, At Bikaner Hospital
Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) Close on the heels of maternal deaths in Kota, a serious medical concern has surfaced at PBM Hospital in Bikaner, where five women developed severe complications, including kidney failure, after giving birth.
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Africa Is The Deadliest Place In The World To Have A Baby, While Its Population Booms
Women in Central African Republic are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than in the United States, the United Nations has said. For every 100,000 births in the country, one of the world's poorest, 829 women die.
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UK Health Secretary Orders Probe Into Maternity Services After Scandals
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced a "rapid national investigation" into English maternity services after a string of scandals over 15 years.
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'Will Quit If...': Minister After 5 New Mothers Die At Karnataka Hospital
Another maternal death has been reported at the Ballari Medical College and Research Centre (BMCRC), bringing the total number of such fatalities in the past month to five.
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Maternal Deaths In UK Surge to Highest Level In Almost 20 Years: Study
The number of women in Britain dying during pregnancy or soon afterwards has reached its highest level in almost two decades, a new study reported Thursday.
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India Among 10 Countries That Account For 60% Of Maternal, New Born Deaths: Study
India leads a list of 10 countries that together account for 60 per cent of global maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths, and 51 per cent of live births globally, a report released by the United Nations has said.
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Mother Or Baby Die In Child Birth Every 11 Seconds: UN
Global child and maternal deaths have fallen sharply in recent decades, but new UN statistics released Thursday show unequal progress, with more than five childbirths a minute ending in tragedy.
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With Free Bus Rides, Nepali Women Opting For Hospitals For Safer Births
As a teenager Meera Nepali was terrified as she went into labour with her first child at home in a remote village, miles from a hospital with nobody but her mother-in-law to help.
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Health Ministry Identifies 4 Medical Institutes To Tackle Maternal Deaths
New Delhi: The health ministry has identified four medical institutes which will act as regional centres and train people in tracking maternal deaths and taking steps to prevent them. The institutes–MGIMS Wardha, Institute of OBGYN, Chennai, KGMU Lucknow and Guwahati Medical College, Assam– were identified during a national workshop on ‘Stren...
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Book Excerpt: My Patient Died; What I Said To Her Husband Right After
She was indeed pale and her recent haemoglobin was just three grams. That was barely enough to keep her alive and she was pregnant on top of that. Such a low haemoglobin meant years of poor nutrition and neglect. Even the livestock in the villages were better looked after. They didn’t look very poor either. Her husband appeared healthy enough. ...
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To Curb Maternal, Newborn Deaths, India Joins The UN Network
United Nations: India is among nine countries that will be part of a global health network focused on improving the quality of care for new mothers and babies and strengthen national efforts to end preventable deaths of pregnant women and newborns by 2030. The nine countries are India, Bangladesh, A Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria...
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For Women Working In Unorganised Sector, New Maternity Benefit Programme Comes As A Blessing
New Delhi: On a wintry morning of January in Delhi’s Connaught Place, a two-month-old baby, not yet named, sleeps outdoors under a blanket. Her mother, Shabana, who is a vendor, has brought her to work. In another part of the city, like Shabana, women daily wage workers take small breaks during work to be with their babies. These women are not ...
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More Births In Indian Hospitals Not Reducing Maternal Deaths
India's ambitious programme to provide monetary incentives for women to give birth in health facilities instead of home has not reduced maternal deaths as much as expected, especially in poor areas, a new study has claimed.
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India, US and Ethiopia Join Hands to Fight Child, Maternal Deaths
India, the United States and Ethiopia have joined hands to address the global challenge of child and maternal deaths in particular in the third world countries.
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Denied admission, woman delivers baby outside hospital
The NHRC has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Health Secretary of Delhi Government. In a shocking incident on Monday, while a woman delivered a baby outside a hospital as authorities denied her admission, another died for want of timely medication. Both incidents took place at the Baba Bhimrao Ambedkar hospital in Rohini area of the No...
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Five Women Develop Severe Postpartum Complications, Including Kidney Failure, At Bikaner Hospital
Jaipur, June 9 (IANS) Close on the heels of maternal deaths in Kota, a serious medical concern has surfaced at PBM Hospital in Bikaner, where five women developed severe complications, including kidney failure, after giving birth.
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Africa Is The Deadliest Place In The World To Have A Baby, While Its Population Booms
Women in Central African Republic are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than in the United States, the United Nations has said. For every 100,000 births in the country, one of the world's poorest, 829 women die.
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UK Health Secretary Orders Probe Into Maternity Services After Scandals
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced a "rapid national investigation" into English maternity services after a string of scandals over 15 years.
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'Will Quit If...': Minister After 5 New Mothers Die At Karnataka Hospital
Another maternal death has been reported at the Ballari Medical College and Research Centre (BMCRC), bringing the total number of such fatalities in the past month to five.
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Maternal Deaths In UK Surge to Highest Level In Almost 20 Years: Study
The number of women in Britain dying during pregnancy or soon afterwards has reached its highest level in almost two decades, a new study reported Thursday.
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India Among 10 Countries That Account For 60% Of Maternal, New Born Deaths: Study
India leads a list of 10 countries that together account for 60 per cent of global maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths, and 51 per cent of live births globally, a report released by the United Nations has said.
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Mother Or Baby Die In Child Birth Every 11 Seconds: UN
Global child and maternal deaths have fallen sharply in recent decades, but new UN statistics released Thursday show unequal progress, with more than five childbirths a minute ending in tragedy.
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With Free Bus Rides, Nepali Women Opting For Hospitals For Safer Births
As a teenager Meera Nepali was terrified as she went into labour with her first child at home in a remote village, miles from a hospital with nobody but her mother-in-law to help.
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Health Ministry Identifies 4 Medical Institutes To Tackle Maternal Deaths
New Delhi: The health ministry has identified four medical institutes which will act as regional centres and train people in tracking maternal deaths and taking steps to prevent them. The institutes–MGIMS Wardha, Institute of OBGYN, Chennai, KGMU Lucknow and Guwahati Medical College, Assam– were identified during a national workshop on ‘Stren...
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Book Excerpt: My Patient Died; What I Said To Her Husband Right After
She was indeed pale and her recent haemoglobin was just three grams. That was barely enough to keep her alive and she was pregnant on top of that. Such a low haemoglobin meant years of poor nutrition and neglect. Even the livestock in the villages were better looked after. They didn’t look very poor either. Her husband appeared healthy enough. ...
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To Curb Maternal, Newborn Deaths, India Joins The UN Network
United Nations: India is among nine countries that will be part of a global health network focused on improving the quality of care for new mothers and babies and strengthen national efforts to end preventable deaths of pregnant women and newborns by 2030. The nine countries are India, Bangladesh, A Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria...
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For Women Working In Unorganised Sector, New Maternity Benefit Programme Comes As A Blessing
New Delhi: On a wintry morning of January in Delhi’s Connaught Place, a two-month-old baby, not yet named, sleeps outdoors under a blanket. Her mother, Shabana, who is a vendor, has brought her to work. In another part of the city, like Shabana, women daily wage workers take small breaks during work to be with their babies. These women are not ...
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More Births In Indian Hospitals Not Reducing Maternal Deaths
India's ambitious programme to provide monetary incentives for women to give birth in health facilities instead of home has not reduced maternal deaths as much as expected, especially in poor areas, a new study has claimed.
-
India, US and Ethiopia Join Hands to Fight Child, Maternal Deaths
India, the United States and Ethiopia have joined hands to address the global challenge of child and maternal deaths in particular in the third world countries.
-
Denied admission, woman delivers baby outside hospital
The NHRC has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Health Secretary of Delhi Government. In a shocking incident on Monday, while a woman delivered a baby outside a hospital as authorities denied her admission, another died for want of timely medication. Both incidents took place at the Baba Bhimrao Ambedkar hospital in Rohini area of the No...
