Jaipur: SMS college to investigate maternal deaths in Zanana Hospital

Dr U S Agarwal in his statement has implied that after having visited the Zanana Hospital personally, he didn’t find any obvious reasons for deaths. He is now expecting the report to clear the air.

This does not spell good news for the Zanana Hospital which is the biggest facility in the state for maternal care. The government has also been laying its focus on reducing maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Such an incident only adds to the woes of common people and the medical fraternity at large.

As reported by TOI, aiming to reduce maternal deaths, the health department has started social audits of each maternal death. ASHA workers have been roped in for the purpose. The health department had even conducted orientation of ASHAs on social audit of maternal death. District ASHA coordinators and block ASHA facilitators had been trained at state level. Social audit of 392 maternal deaths have been done from September 2014 to January 2016.