Maharashtra: new president elected for AMOGS

The 30th AMOGS conference is based on the theme Safe Motherhood, while throwing light on the prevailing situation in the state on maternal deaths.

Kanan Yelikar is implied to have said with the rising number of pregnancy related deaths each year, with nearly 5,29,000 women die globally; there is a need to take initiative to reduce MMR. This can be achieved further by focusing programmes jointly with the public health services at peripheral talukas and districts.

For each maternal death nearly 118 women suffer from life threatening event severe acute maternal mortality (SAMM). Around 8 workshops would be conducted health workers through which field work will help to know the exact cause of maternal death and there by solutions to it, she said, as reported by the TOI.

Other newly elected AMOGS members include Rohini Deshpande, Nandita Palshitkar, Kedar Ganla, Rajendra Sankpal, Ajay Mane and Arun Nayak.