EHA

However much a mother wants to care for herself, it is impossible if she is poor and oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anaemic and unhealthy, has 5-6 children, lives in a slum or village, has no clean water, and if she is without support from health services, her society, or the father of her children.

Reliable estimates of maternal mortality in India are not available. WHO estimates show that out of the 529,000 maternal deaths globally each year, 136,000 (25.7%) are contributed by India. This is the highest burden for any single country.

• To decrease maternal and neonatal mortality in the population served by the hospitals and community health projects of EHA
• To decrease the mortality associated with unplanned pregnancies by providing easily accessible family planning services
• To improve the health of adolescent girls and decrease the complications associated with early and too frequent childbearing.
• To upgrade facilities in every EHA hospital for the provision of high quality and affordable care including the use of standard treatment protocols, improved infrastructure and relevant staff training.
• To decrease the three delays that contributes to maternal mortality; delay in instituting adequate and appropriate care at the hospital level.
• To improve the survival of neonates who are low birth weight, premature or compromised during pregnancy by providing modern neonatal care.
• To decrease the morbidity associated with gynaecological problems by early diagnosis in the community and high quality treatment at the hospital.
• To steadily improve record keeping and collect data that will inform future activities.
• To be involved in reproductive health research and criterion based audits that will help to focus on key interventions.