“Antenatal care is essential for protecting the health of women and their unborn children.... Through antenatal care, pregnant women can also access micronutrient supplementation, treatment for hypertension to prevent eclampsia, as well as immunisation against tetanus. Antenatal care can also provide HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) testing and medications to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV,” according to an April 2021 note from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Households here also have lower electricity connections rate (90.3 per cent) compared to state (96.3 per cent) and national (96.5 per cent) figures. Improved drinking water sources are available only to 80.1 per cent of households here, and toilet facilities only to 68 per cent. Both these numbers are lower than for Odisha and for India overall (see chart 2).
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