Kerala Maternal Mortality Rate Steeps Down

5 January 2014
Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala Maternal Mortality Rate has shown a steep downfall with 15 points from 2007-09 and now stands at 66, according to the latest Sample Registration Survey (SRS) report 2010-12 published by the Centre.

The State’s MMR, as per the SRS data of 2007-09, was 81 (per one lakh live births). India’s MMR too has dropped substantially by 34 points from 2007-09, when the MMR was 212, to 178 in the latest SRS report 2010-12.

Last mile reduction of MMR and IMR has been among the priorities identified for the State in the 12th Plan. Health planners had pointed out earlier itself that there will be no scarcity of resources for the State’s health sector in the 12th Plan as there is a 322 per cent increase in the allocation for health over the 11th Plan.

M. Beena, State Mission Director, National Health Mission, says the MMR reduction has always been centre to all the maternal and reproductive health programmes of the State and that it is heartening to note that the dip in MMR between the SRS of 2007-09 and 2010-12 is 19 per cent. This is against the 15 per cent reduction in MMR achieved by the State between the SRS of 2004-06 and 2007-09.

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