Over 3,000 Asha workers are motivating rural women across the district to opt for institutional deliveries to promote child survival and reduce maternal mortality. And the result is evident.

Of the 60,893 maternal deliveries in the rural parts of the district in 2014-15, as many as 57,061, or 93%, were institutional deliveries, district Health Officer Sushil Wackchaure said."Over the past eight to nine years, institutional deliveries in Nashik rural have increased from 51% to 95%," he said.

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