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UNICEF Survey Finds Increase in Maternal and Child Health in India
The CES shows significant increase in major indicators for maternal and child health including immunization and reaffirms the positive results of the strategies adopted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) for the Reproductive and Child Health Programme.
Maternal Health
Janani Suraksha Yojana has changed the scenario of institutional delivery in the country. The CES results show that when compared to data of NFHS-III, which provides the figures for 2005-06, beginning of NRHM, certain important parameters of maternal health have shown impressive increases:
Institutional delivery has increased from 40.7 % to 72.9 %
Safe delivery by skilled birth attendants has increased from 48.2% to 76 %
Mothers who had 3 or more Ante Natal Check-ups has also increased from 50.7 % to 68.7%.
In the so called backward states such as Madhya Pradesh institutional delivery has increased from 29.7 % to 81%, in Orissa where institutional delivery has increased from 38.8 % to 75.5%, in Rajasthan from 32.2 % to 70.4 %, in Bihar from 22.0 % to 48.3%, in Chhattisgarh from 15.7% to 44.9% and in Uttar Pradesh this has increased from 22.0 % to 62.1 %.
Child Health
There has been a considerable improvement in Child Health indicators as compared to NFHS III (2005 -06)
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