| ■ India's maternal childbirth deaths 'shocking': UN official | 2007.12.10 |
| NEW DELHI (AFP) - India will not meet a key United Nations development goal to cut its "shocking" maternal death rate 75 percent by 2015 at its current pace, a UN health advisor said Monday. About 100,000 women die in childbirth in India each year, or one every five minutes. "In India, more than 300 maternal deaths occur for every 100,000 live births," Paul Hunt, UN special rapporteur on health rights, told reporters Monday after visiting two of India's worst states for maternal deaths. "For a middle-income country of its status and stature, the rate of maternal deaths in India is shocking." Several of India's poorer neighbours do better, including civil war-torn Sri Lanka, where 56 women die for every 100,000 live births…… |