| Dear Friend¸
In India, one woman dies every five minutes from a pregnancy-related cause. There are hundreds of thousands of pregnant women who could not even afford a two full square meals dies due to poverty and non-affordability of quality healthcare.
India accounts for more than 20 per cent of the global maternal and child deaths, and also records 20 per cent of births worldwide.
Approximately 30 million women in India experience pregnancy annually, and 27 million have live births. Of these, nearly 136,000 maternal deaths occur annually, most of which can be prevented. The maternal mortality ratio in India is 540 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, rising to 619 in rural areas.
Given the high maternal mortality rate in India, the women who lose their lives as a result of pregnancy and childbirth remain invisible in general.
CSR Nursing Home a 100 bedded multi-specialty hospital run by CSR Charitable Trust, a leading healthcare institution with a mission to “Care the children & aged, Support the Women and Empower the underprivileged to perish the poverty in its every dimension” has NIL maternal mortality rate among the booked antenatal patients, has committed itself to address the perennial problem of the poor pregnant women by providing free medication, treatment and delivery from conception to confinement with the support of generous philanthropic friends like you.
This scheme identifies the poor pregnant women those are in need of quality health care and provide antenatal care, counseling, medication, delivery etc., at absolute free of cost. All these were only possible with the generous philanthropic support of friends like you. One small gesture with generous contribution of yours can transform and save the life of a poor pregnant women and child.
Donate now, to save a pregnant women and child.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Rajini Kumar
Executive Director & Maternal care specialist
P.S. Donations are exempted from 80G of
Income Tax Act.
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Seetha, a young woman in her early twenties was nine months pregnant. She was anaemic, had swollen feet and suffered from hypertension - everything a pregnant woman should not have. These symptoms can lead to complications at the time of delivery and in seetha’s case they did. Due to poverty, Seetha chose to deliver at rural health centre, with its limited birthing facilities, and suffered from excessive bleeding. She survived and so did her twins. She was fortunate - but thousands of other pregnant women in India are not.
Forty seven per cent of maternal deaths in rural India are attributed to excessive bleeding and anemia resulting from poor nutritional practices. Intermediate causes, which are the first and second delays in care-seeking, include the low social status of women, lack of awareness and knowledge at the household level, inadequate resources to seek care, and poor access to quality health care. Causes of third delay are untimely diagnosis and treatment, poor skills and training of care providers, and prolonged waiting time at the facility due to lack of trained personnel, equipment and blood. There are insufficient facilities for antenatal care and 65 per cent of all deliveries are still conducted at home, very often by untrained helpers.
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