Invest more in female health workers: NGO

New Delhi: March 09, 2011

Save the Children, an NGO has called for greater investment in female health workers as essential to saving mothers' and children's lives. It is estimated that globally, 74 per cent of mothers' lives could be saved if they had access to a skilled health worker at delivery and emergency obstetrics care for complications, and 63 per cent of children under the age of five could be saved if all children were to receive a full package of essential healthcare, which includes skilled birth attendance, immunisation, and treatment for pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.

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