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FULL REPORT OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTH MISSION TO INDIA IS ATTACHED.

 

"The mission focused on the issue of maternal mortality with a view to understanding, in the context of the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the steps taken by India to reduce this phenomenon, and to make constructive recommendations....."

 

"The Special Rapporteur underlines that maternal health is not only a health issue. It is also a human rights issue, relating to - for example - women's rights to life, health, equality and non-discrimination."

 

"In India, 100,000 women die yearly in India during childbirth or pregnancy. There is an average of 300 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in India, which is higher than in many other middle-income and some low-income countries....Even though the Indian Rate of maternal deaths is declining, at the present rate neither India, nor any of its states, will reach their maternal mortality targets for 2015 arising from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...."

 

"Registration System and Maternal Death Audits: The Special Rapporteur noted with concern that there is no effective, reliable and comprehensive civil registration for accurately reporting births and deaths in India. There is evidence that women are silently dying in childbirth and during pregnancy. As many of these deaths are not registered, they remain uncounted and unreported. The Special Rapporteur strongly recommends that all States introduce, as a matter of urgency, a comprehensive, effective registration system, as well as a system of maternal death audits, such as those already in existence in Tamil Nadu and on a pilot basis in Rajasthan. It is of the utmost importance that all the circumstances of maternal deaths are examined in order to find out why the death occurred. A maternal death audit should be a non-judicial review, one that goes beyond medical reasons to identify the social, economic and cultural reasons that led or contributed to the death...."

 

 

 

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GENERAL

A/HRC/11/Add.4

29 February 2008

ENGLISH Only

 

 

 

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Seventh Session

Agenda Item 3

 

Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development

 

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE STANDARD OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

 

PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE MISSION TO INDIA

 

ADDENDUM

 

FULL REPORT IS ATTACHED.

 

 

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