National Committee for Maternal and Neonatal Health

Handling abortions with care

January 19, 2014

By: SAJIDA ALI Dawn interviews Dr Azra Ahsan, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with decades of experience in dealing with various complications of pregnancy, including

Planned parenthood: Women say they’d rather be safe than sorry

September 30, 2013

By: Mahim Maher KARACHI: Instead of building the Taj Mahal, wryly remarked one gynaecologist, Emperor Shah Jahan should have spent that money on 14 maternity

Women forced to have unsafe abortions: study

September 28, 2013

KARACHI: Nearly 700,000 women in Pakistan last year went to health facilities for treatment of complications resulting from spontaneous or induced abortions using unsafe methods

16,000 women die every year

May 26, 2013

KARACHI: President National Committee for Maternal and Neonatal Health (NCMNH) Prof Sadiqua N Jafarey said on Saturday that around 16,000 young women die of pregnancy