For decades, successive governments in this state have focused on improving healthcare access for pregnant women. Kayalvizhi Sundar, 25, beams as she comes out of the Government Women and Children?? Hospital in Egmore in Chennai on a hot humid morning earlier this month. She has just received a sum of Rs 4,000 from the Tamil Nadu state government. ??he nurse told me that this money was for me to eat healthy food,??said Sundar, who is seven months pregnant. ??he advised me and my husband that I should not spend it on anything else.??Sundar will receive another Rs 8,000 from the state in two instalments ??once when she delivers her baby and another when the child is four-and-a-half months old. But before collecting her last instalment, however, she will have to get her baby immunised with the pentavalent vaccine, which combines different vaccines in one injection and protects infants against whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, diphtheria, and a bacteria that causes meningitis and pneumonia. Read More?at ?www.scroll.in