Healthy Mothers, Healthy Nation. A Step Towards Women’s Health in Rural India

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Nation. A Step Towards Women's Health in Rural India

Even after multiple years of independence, even after women have managed to encroach on many aspects of the professional realm, if you look at the present data in India, we realise, with utmost disappointment, that women are only relegated to the domestic domains and are not given as many rights as an individual in a democratic country should get. A woman inevitably plays multiple roles in a house- the role of a mother, the role of a daughter, the role of a sister, and many more. Here, however, it is extremely important to talk about the role of a woman as a mother because a mother not only brings forth a healthy child, but is also responsible largely for the biological, social, biological as well as psychological growth of a child. It is therefore understandable that if a woman is not healthy, and more specifically, if a pregnant or a lactating woman is not healthy, the child that she’s going to bring forth is going to be affected on multiple health parameters.