According to latest reports for Millennium Development Goals, pregnant women dying has decreased by 34% from an estimated 5,46,000 in 1990 to 3,58,000 in 2008.
Number of women worldwide who die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth has decreased 34 percent in the past 20 years.India’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) has been declined by 59% since 1990, but still records 63,000 maternal deaths in a year.In Asia, number of maternal deaths is have dropped from 3.15 lakhs to 1.39 lakhs.
Maternal mortality rate resulting 2.3 percent annual rate of decline is still lesser than half for MDG goal of reducing ratio by 75% from 1990 to 2015.Of those 1,000 pregnant women who died in 2008, 570 lived in sub-Saharan Africa, 300 in South Asia and five in high-income countries.
By reaching women in rural areas and poorer households, women from ethnic minorities and indigenous groups, and women living with HIV and in conflict zones it can be reduced further.
Indian Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad says "maternal health is at extreme for all of us because life begins from here. I am aware that a large number of maternal deaths take place in India, which can be prevented. By preventing the delays in health care and by addressing the causes of maternal mortality like unsafe abortions, a lot of avoidable maternal deaths can be prevented."
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