By Indrani Rajkhowa Banerjee
Guwahati, Jul 10 : After all the gory reports on how female feticide and crime against of women in UP, Bihar and Rajasthan, here comes the shocker.
A recent report on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) released by the Centre puts Assam as the top state with maternal mortatlity. Lack of nourishment and care for the would-be mother, sanitation and hygiene are a few reasons owing to the shameful statistics.
"A few states have always been in media focus for mistreating women and the girl child. This notion has further been fuelled by TV soaps and sensational tabloids. States like West Bengal and Assam has set fine examples of an equal society. But with the latest statistics, Assam has to rethink the way it treats it girl child," says Dr Malti Barua, a leading gynecologist in Assam.
Against the national average of 212, MMR in Assam is 390, the highest in the country.
The number is way higher than states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Rajasthan. The only silver lining in the bulletin is that MMR in Assam has declined from 480 (during 2004-2006) period to 390 (during 2007-2009).
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