Bihar’s immunisation cold chain network runs on 1,946 working cold chain equipment installed across 654 vaccine stores and cold chain points. But it is the women and men who handle and deliver the vaccines who have contributed to the vaccination in the state.
The 'motherhood' journey that a woman goes through, from becoming pregnant to delivering a child, can be both incredible and worrisome at the same time.
The Maternity Benefit Act passed in 1961, protects the right to employment of these women during the time of their maternity and entitles them a ‘maternity benefit.’
In recent years Gujarat has experienced stark shortages in supplies of doctors, especially in the rural areas. This new initiative will see medical teams being assigned to 10,000 villages which they will visit twice a week for 2 hours to offer healthcare to those in need.
Access to information and proper training can make a difference in life-and-death situations, especially in cases like pregnancy and childbirth. India Fellow Dyuti writes about such a case where knowledge helped a young mother save the lives of herself and her newborn.