Improving Maternal and Child Health

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The general objective of the operation is to improve health conditions for the country's poorest people, by helping to reduce the profile of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality from avoidable causes that especially affect people living in poor rural areas with a heavy concentration of indigenous people, and in peri- urban zones, thereby moving towards attainment of the millennium health goals and reducing disparities between these indicators and the national averages. Specifically, as a PDL, the operation is designed to improve a set of tracking indicators associated with the effort to expand the coverage and improve the quality of health services, such as checkups during pregnancy, childbirth in an institutional setting with qualified staff, and hospitalization for the most prevalent maternal and infant pathologies, such as hemorrhaging and asphyxia, respectively.