Sanskrita Bharadwaj
Bio:
Sanskrita Bharadwaj is an independent journalist based in India's northeastern state, Assam. She reports on health, social justice and culture.
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In Assam’s Tea Gardens, Low-Wage Women Workers Struggle to Access Maternity Care
Pregnant workers in the tea gardens of Assam, a northeastern state in India, lack access to basic health care facilities, much less to the comprehensive maternity care they need to ensure healthy pregnancies. And the confluence of poverty, lack of access, and lack of awareness speak to why the state's maternal mortality ratio is double that of India's average and the highest in the country.
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