The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our study used the case methodology based on the WHO framework for providing...

The objective of the present study was to explore how infection rates in study hospitals were affected by an intervention in six intervention hospitals in Gujarat, India. Infection control practices, human resource management, infrastructure, supplies and associated health system factors were...

Staff nurses (nurse-midwives) in India are expected to provide normal birth services in health facilities under the maternal health strategy of the National Rural Health Mission. Under the integrated nursing and midwifery programme in India, every nurse graduate has some midwifery education...

Maternal Health Services are one of the basic health services to be provided by nay government health system as pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable victims of dysfunctional health system, India, in spite of rapid economic progress is still farm away from the goal of lowering maternal...

In resource poor countries substantial sums of money, from governments and international donors, are used to purchase equipment for health facilities. WHO estimates that 50-80% of such equipment remains non-functional. This article is based on the experiences from various projects in developing...

Maternal mortality remains to be one of the very important public health problems in India. The maternal mortality estimates, is about (300-400/100,000 live births). There are diverse management issues, policy barriers to be overcome for improving maternal health. Especially, the...

The maternal mortality ratio of Gujarat was 148/100,000 live births in 2009 (SRS, 2011a) and the infant mortality rate 41/1000 live births in 2011 (SRS, 2011b). The government of Gujarat announced Chiranjeevi Yojana in 2005 to reduce maternal and infant mortality. The scheme was pilot tested in...