India’s Women’s Mortality Rate
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article793323.ece
This article covers the attempt of the Indian government to mislead the world community on their progress in reducing maternal mortality rate as part of the UN millennium development goals. One of the most important points of the article was the monetary incentive that the government offers women to give birth in a health facility, known as institution deliveries. In measuring their progress on the MDG goal, the government is only looking at the number of those who gave birth at a health facility instead of those who survived the delivery process (which includes post-delivery process) which is a much more accurate way of measurement. The Indian government turns a blind eye to transit to health facilities, referral mechanisms, emergency obstetric care and the post delivery process.
The social implications of the article show what India is willing to do to show improvement on the world stage. I thought the article fairly showed that although the government is improving in some aspects of maternal mortality that the continuation of ignoring all women within the country. As an example the article also mentioned the death of a woman in July who gave birth to a baby on a street without assistance and later died due to sitting in dirty rainwater for four days. While looking at this article through a social lens I think it is important to remember that you need to count all of society and not just those that can reach hospital facilities.
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