Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health
Deaths due to pregnancy and child birth are potential threats to women in the reproductive age groups. The toll that unsafe motherhood takes on the lives and health of women and hence, on their families and communities, becomes really tragic as it is mostly preventable.
Reduction of mortality of women has thus been an area of major concern and governments across the globe have set time bound targets to achieve it. Maternal death is an important indicator of the reach of effective clinical health services to the poor and is in turn act as one of the composite measure to assess the country’s progress.