Dead Women Talking :
Launch of the Report
24th September 2014 was a proud
day for the CSOs who work in the field of health. Yesterday when Dead
Women Talking : A Civil Society Report on Maternal Deaths in India released by Dr Syeda Hameed, former member of
Planning Commission in New Delhi fulfilled the aims of a rigorous group's several
months works on recording and analysing
the maternal death happened in the Country. The launch was organised in the India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi.
The report is an outcome of a
coordinated civil society effort led by CommonHealth, a national level
coalition working on maternal-neonatal health and safe abortion. Twenty
one civil society and community based
organizations including NAMHHR compiled stories of 124 maternal deaths occurring over a two year
period across 10 states of the country.
The Meeting was cherished with
the presence of the eminent panellists like Professor Lakshmi Lingam, Professor
and Deputy Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad Dr Sridhar
Srikantiah, public health specialist and Dr Ritu Priya, Professor, Centre of
Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The Audience
included Leading Public health Activists, Researchers, Civil Society
Organisations reporters and NAMHHR members Dr. Sebanti Gosh, Priya John, Jayashree Velankar and Jashodhara Dasgupta and representatives from the leading media. Please find the News article came in Indian Express Pune edition :
Please find the links for the report
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