02.23.11 - For the second time in less than a year, the Delhi High Court in India has ordered the local state government to ensure that every pregnant woman has access to quality maternity care.
Highlighting the government’s failure to successfully implement its public health schemes last month, the court urged the government of Delhi to immediately create at least two shelters to provide poor pregnant women with food and proper medical care so that “no destitute woman is compelled to give birth to a child on the footpath.”…
