A Human Rights Watch report emphasises the need for a system of recording and investigating all maternal deaths.
THE maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is calculated by the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 births. Consider this: In 2005, India’s MMR was 16 times that of Russia, 10 times that of China and four times higher than that in Brazil.
Why should there be such high maternal mortality rates in a country that claims to have almost reached superpower status? A report titled “No Tally of the Anguish”, published by Human Rights Watch, points out that there is just no uniform mechanism or system in place to detect the large number of maternal deaths that occur each year.