For more than a decade, the well-known medical writer and doctor, Atul Gawande, has publicised a checklist for hospitals to work from to avoid common mistakes in, say, delivering a child. The rules are often simple: the need for health care providers to wash their hands with soap before a vaginal examination, or having a machine hooked up and ready in the event that a new-born has difficulty breathing. Despite some improvement, high rates of maternal mortality remain a problem in India, in part because Gawande’s checklist is routinely ignored.
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