Meet Sutapa Neogi, SDG Editorial Board Member for BMCPregnancyChildbirth. Her work focuses on epidemiological and clinical research around Maternal and Child health. In this blog, she talks about her research on anemia among pregnant women in India.
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How does your work relate to the SDGs? Which SDGs specifically? Anaemia during pregnancy increases the risk of maternal and perinatal mortality. It contributes to low birth-weight infants , who are prone to deaths and diseases while they are young. Such babies are prone to chronic health problems such as diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Follow up of patients was very critical in these studies but was not very easy as women in India normally visit their parents’ house during birth or give birth at home or in private set ups, rather than in hospitals where they can be monitored. Counselling by the research staff reduced the attrition rate to less than 5%, which otherwise could have been higher.
We were constrained by the budget and hence could not provide additional staff that the hospital wanted. Moreover, the contractual agreements were made for defined time periods and extensions were granted only after all official formalities were over. This led to several breaks in the contracts and we had to devise our internal arrangements to take care of the operational expenses.
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