THEME OF 2022

1. THEME 2022 “REMAIN AT HOME
AMID CORONA VIRUS, PROTECT
MOTHER AND INFANT”.
Miss Daminee patel

2. INTRODUCTION
National Safe Motherhood
Day is observed on April
11 every year. National Safe
Motherhood Day is an
initiative of the White Ribbon
Alliance India (WRAI), to
enforce that women must
have the availability and
adequate access to care
during pregnancy childbirth
and postnatal services.

3. HISTORY OF NATIONAL SAFE
MOTHERHOOD DAY
At the request of WRAI (White Ribbon
Alliance India), an alliance of 1800
organizations, in 2003, the Government of
India declared April 11th, the anniversary
of Kasturba Gandhi’s birth, as National Safe
Motherhood Day.

4. HISTORY CONTINUE….
 India is the 1st country in the world to have
socially declared a National Safe Motherhood
Day. The government of India declared the
National Safe Motherhood day on April 11,
2003.
 It was done at the request of WRAI (White
Ribbon Alliance India) which is an alliance of
1800 organizations. White Ribbon Alliance
India was launched in 1999.

5. HISTORY CONTINUE….
•The government chose this day
as it is the birth anniversary of
Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Gandhiji.
•WRAI wants to ensure that
women have availability and
adequate access to care during
pregnancy, childbirth and
postnatal services.

6. GOALS OF SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY
“The goal of these annual
campaigns is to increase
awareness that every woman
has a right to live and survive
pregnancy and childbirth,”
The goal of these activities
organized by WRAI is to
increase awareness that
every woman has a right to
live and survive pregnancy
and childbirth.

7. NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY
2022 THEME
This year’s theme is
“Remain at home amid
corona virus, protect
mother and infant”.
Every year the members of
WRAI select a theme and
carry out activities to
increase awareness about
maternity facilities and
proper healthcare for
pregnant and lactating
women.

8. NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY 2022
SIGNIFICANCE
 White Ribbon Alliance decided to observe
National Safe Motherhood Day every year
with an aim to raise awareness about
adequate access to care during pregnancy,
childbirth and postnatal period along with a
focus on reducing anemia.
 India accounts for 15 per cent of total
maternal deaths worldwide. Even though over
80 per cent of women deliver in health
facilities, the death rate is high. “Every year
44,000 women die in India due to improper
care during the pregnancy”

9. SIGNIFICANCE CONTINUE…….
 Safe motherhood means ensuring that all
women receive the care they need to be
safe and healthy throughout pregnancy and
childbirth.
 According to WRAI, “It is the right of every
woman to take good quality nutrition, proper
healthcare services during and after
pregnancy and childbirth”. It also calls for
abolishing child marriages because it may
be an indirect cause of maternal deaths.

10. FACTS ABOUT MATERNAL MORTALITY
 As per World Health Organization,
approximately 830 women die every day from
preventable causes related to pregnancy and
childbirth.

11. MATERNAL MORTALITY CONTINUE…..
 50 to 98 per cent of maternal deaths are
caused by direct obstetric causes –
hemorrhage, infection, hypertensive
disorders, ruptured uterus, hepatitis, and
anemia, says the WHO.
 Skilled care before, during and after
childbirth can save the lives of women and
newborn babies, as per WHO.

12. MATERNAL MORTALITY CONTINUE…..
 Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India for
the period 2016 to 2018, as per the latest
report of the national Sample Registration
System (SRS) data is 113 per 100,000 live
births. It has declined by 17 points, from 130
per 100,000 live births in 2014 to 2016.
 Rural areas tend to have greater rate of
infant mortality.

13. NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY INITIATIVES
 There have been many national initiatives by the
government of India to ensure safe motherhood for women.
 Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) is the most
prominent among them.

14. INITIATIVE CONTINUE…
 It was launched in 2011 to motivate those who
still choose to deliver at their homes to opt for
institutional deliveries.
 Under this initiative, every woman who is
pregnant becomes eligible to deliver child in
public health institutions for free of cost which
also includes cesarean births.
 Pregnant women are also given free drugs and
consumables, free diagnostics, free blood if
required, and free diet for three days during
normal delivery and seven days for C-section.
 JSSK also provides free transport from home to
institution.

15. NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD DAY 2022
QUOTES
 A mother is she who can take the place of all
others but whose place no one else can
take.—Gaspard Mermillod
 Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.
Everything gets reduced to essentials.—
Meryl Streep