The Sample Registration System (SRS) statistical report for 2021 and a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India (2019–2021), released on Thursday by the Office of the Registrar General of India in New Delhi, ranked Telangana among the top South Indian states—second only to Kerala—in reducing the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), defined as the number of maternal deaths per 1 lakh live births.
The report titled Trends in maternal mortality shows a 40 per cent global decline in (MMR, number of maternal deaths per 100 000 live births) between 2000 and 2023
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday termed as “speculative and misinformed” a new study which claimed that India’s estimated cumulative excess Covid deaths between January 2020 and December 2021 was around eight times higher than reported. The Lancet reported on Thursday that although excess mortality rates due to Covid among Indian states are not the […]
