Don’t start with the premise that childbirth is broken, Janhavi Nilekani

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Don’t start with the premise that childbirth is broken, Janhavi Nilekani

“Ensuring a mother and child survive childbirth is the basic minimum. It should not be the ceiling of what you achieve,” says Janhavi Nilekani, the founder and Chairperson of the Aastrika Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming maternal healthcare. But the transformation of maternal healthcare in India is far from easy. “Poor quality of maternal healthcare is so normalised in India,” she says.