Ensure safer births

Expand road networks to increase access to hospitals in rural areas.

As part of its strategy to prevent maternal deaths, the government has established free birthing centres with skilled birth attendants across the country. It has also arranged for encouragement and transportation allowances, and mobilised an army of female community health workers who traverse difficult and remote terrains across the country to advise women about safe and healthy births and even administer life-saving drugs. However, women still deliver their babies at home instead of visiting health facilities.