Maternal health services need improvement.

(From Business Recorder)

Women's issues are an extremely low priority and needed to be focused on as the situation has neither improved nor any headway could be made in achieving the targets in this regard.

"Multiple strategies are required to give the women their due status," was the outcome of the fourth provincial consultation on 'Challenges to meet reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in post-quake situation', organised by the Marie Stopes Society and Shirkat Gah at a local hotel on Monday.

Maternal health services had not improved at all. "Three women die every hour owing to pregnancy related causes. Discrimination on …