I cannot distinguish a frog from a toad.

Obstetrical coverage 50 per cent.

Dealing with obstetrical complications and neonatal emergencies.

And the first surgery of the day happened to be an obstetrical case.

Where there are no Centres for Family Planning, information, consultation, and printed material can be obtained by Obstetrical Gynecological medical offices of Public Hospitals.

The collection of data about the number of abortions is very difficult because, although its characterisation as a punishable crime has been abolished by law 1609 86, women undergoing an abortion continue to ask for the implementation of medical secrecy even in public obstetrical clinics.

In the aftermath of the tsunami, the United Nations and its various agencies, funds and programmes mobilized rapidly to mount a coordinated response, providing immediate humanitarian relief food aid water purification, emergency health and sanitation kits temporary shelters and supplies for emergency obstetrical care, safe blood transfusions and vaccinations and coordinating efforts for long term rehabilitation and reconstruction of the affected areas.

Indeed, India is doing much more with its remarkable National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which is the single largest mobilization of public health measures in the world. An astounding half million young woman have recently been hired as health workers to link impoverished households and public clinics and hospitals, which are being improved, and to increase women s access to emergency obstetrical care in order to avoid tragic and unnecessary deaths in childbirth.