Saturday, April 21, 2012

Battling maternal deaths, Assam upgrades health workers' skills | ummid.com

Battling maternal deaths, Assam upgrades health workers' skills | ummid.com
Assam, which has the highest maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the country at 390 per 1,000 live births, also faces a serious crunch of doctors. So the state is now rolling out rural health workers, upgrading skills and making it mandatory for medical students to practise in villages.