Aid organization Save the Children puts India last in the G-20 in its Mothers??Index, which measures pregnancy-related deaths; child mortality; and the economic, educational and political status of women. Out of 178 countries, India ranked 137th in 2014. Although everyday bribery is rife throughout India, the petty fees extracted from poor women seeking maternity care are especially pernicious. The graft extends from hospital staff who demand money to change bandages to elected officials and top bureaucrats responsible for fixing up 134 hospitals in Sita?? state of Uttar Pradesh. That?? the most maternal deaths for any nation -- 17 percent of all such fatalities globally. For every 100,000 live births in India, 190 women die, ranking the country with Indonesia at the bottom of the Group of 20 nations

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