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Assam free from high MMR burden, infant mortality rate also down: CM
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Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the state has come out from the historical backlog of high burden of maternal mortality ratio (MMR), which has been recorded by the sample registration survey (SRS) special bulletin for 2020-22, released recently.
He added that the state's infant mortality rate (IMR) and under-5 mortality ratio (U5MR) have also improved significantly.
"Assam is no longer the state with the highest MMR in the country. Assam's MMR is now better than Madhya Pradesh (159), Chhattisgarh (141), Uttar Pradesh (141) and Odisha (136) as per SRS 2020-22," Sarma said.
As per SRS 2020-22, MMR of Assam has come down to 125. "This shows, 70 points (36%) drop in MMR in just two years.
No other states in the country have shown such decline," Sarma added.
He said from MMR of 490 in 2001-03, Assam improved to 125 by 2020-22, "almost reducing MMR to 1/4th. It is a great achievement for the state of Assam to bring such a great reduction of MMR even during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic."
He attributed this high historical MMR to poor maternal health conditions and health infrastructure in the state.
"Now, it is time to move forward and capitalise on all our effective strategies.
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We must push Assam towards one of the five best states in the country in health sector," Sarma said, acknowledging that the state still has a great distance to go.
"With renewed commitment and by adopting focused strategies for improvement of health sector with collective efforts of all members of health and family welfare department, medical education and research department, NHM and all other related departments we shall achieve our goals," he said.
"In the last two decades, tremendous efforts have been undertaken, especially in the last 10 years, for which, significant improvement has been observed in reduction of maternal mortality," he said.
He said it is not just MMR, but IMR also has improved tremendously. "Now, our performance (IMR) is at par with Odisha (32) and better than Uttar Pradesh (38), Chattisgarh (38) and Madhya Pradesh (40)," Sarma said.
"Our Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) was as high as 88 per 1000 live births in 2008. This has also come down from 40 (SRS 2020) to 37 (SRS 2021) and further down to 35 (SRS 2022), almost reducing to 1/3rd. Similarly, our neonatal mortality rate also has improved from 33 per 1000 live births in 2005 to 22 in 2020-22," he added.
