pregnant women

CSR Health Impact Awards 2017 was designed to reward the best CSR initiatives that have impacted health outcomes in the areas of their work across India.

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the much-awaited Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which increases maternity leave from the present 12 weeks to 26 weeks.

The Supreme Court granted a 24-week pregnant woman the permission to go for an abortion, in a landmark judgment on Thursday. The judgment questioned the constitutional validity of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act 1971.

Siva Shantha Mother and Child Health Care Centre is a charity hospital that takes in underprivileged pregnant women, and provides them with medical care and vocational training to make them financially independent.

On the occasion of International Yoga Day, the district collector of Rajkot organised a massive Yoga camp. 1,632 pregnant women in Rajkot, Gujarat participated in this largest prenatal yoga and made Guinness world record.