maternal mortality

‘1 woman dies every 7 minutes due to childbirth complications’

Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: Avoidable complications during child birth are killing 78,000 women in India every year. This means on an average, one woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth every seven minutes.
On the other hand, one million children born in India are dying every year even before they become 28 days old. A child born in India is 14 times more likely to die during the first 28 days than one born in the US or UK. These are some of the shocking findings of UNICEF’s ‘State of the World’s Children 2009’ report released on Thursday.
According to the report, an Indian woman is 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in America or England. For every mother who dies, 20 others suffer pregnancy-related illness. Around 10 million women annually experience such adverse outcomes. Despite an increase in institutional deliveries, 60% of pregnant women still deliver their babies at home.
In India, more than two thirds of all maternal deaths occur in a handful of states — UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Assam. In UP, one in every 42 women faces risk of maternal death, compared to 1 in 500 women in Kerala.
BIRTH
PANGS
MATERNAL MORTALITY FIGURES
Every seven minutes, one woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth
In 2001-2003, 78 000 women died annually during childbirth
For every mother who dies, around 20 others suffer pregnancy related illness
In Uttar Pradesh, one in every 42 women has a lifetime risk of maternal death compared with 1 in 500 in Kerala
The average lifetime risk of an Indian woman dying from pregnancy related complications is 300 times more than her American or British counterpart
NEONATAL MORTALITY FIGURES
1 million children die in India annually before they become 29 days-old
A child born in India is 14 times more likely to die during the first 28 days of life than one born in US or UK
In India, the states with the top five neonatal mortality rates are:
Orissa ( 52 deaths per 1,000 live births), Madhya Pradesh ( 51 ), UttarPradesh ( 46 ), Rajasthan ( 45 ), and Chhattisgarh ( 43 ) (2006)
A quarter of the world's unattended deliveries take place in India
source- TIMES OF INDIA

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Washington: New observations of the atmosphere on Mars show fairly large amounts of methane along with water vapor in the summertime — the strongest suggestion yet that living organisms might be producing the gas. Nasa scientists stressed that there is no direct evidence that anything living produced the methane, which could be produced by volcanic activity, could be made by live microbes, or could be left over from long-extinct life.
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The methane appears to have been produced in plumes from certain areas on Mars as temperatures warmed, they said. “Living systems produce more than 90% of Earth’s atmospheric methane; the balance is of geochemical origin. On Mars, methane could be a signature of either origin,” they added. On Earth, methane is made by decaying plants or found in the burps, belches and other emissions of animals from termites to cattle and people. REUTERS

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