{"id":172898,"date":"2025-06-09T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172898"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:31:36","slug":"national-safe-motherhood-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/national-safe-motherhood-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"National Safe Motherhood Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>National Safe Motherhood Day, observed on\u00a0April 11 every year in India,\u00a0is a vital national campaign to raise awareness about the importance of maternal healthcare. It marks the birth anniversary of\u00a0Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, symbolizing the need to ensure respectful and adequate care for every pregnant and lactating woman.\u00a0Despite progress in reducing maternal mortality, many women\u2014especially in rural, tribal, and marginalized communities\u2014still lack access to timely and quality care, making this day a crucial platform for advocacy, policy focus, and community engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Raise Public Awareness on maternal health, rights, and reproductive care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote Access to Quality Healthcare for prenatal, delivery, and postnatal services.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prevent Maternal Mortality through safe childbirth practices and interventions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combat Malnutrition affecting pregnant women and fetal development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empower Women by improving health literacy and reproductive decision-making.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advocate for Skilled Birth Attendance in all deliveries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theme of 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Theme<\/strong>: \u201cHealthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Focus<\/strong>: Promoting accessible and quality maternal healthcare from the start of pregnancy to ensure safe outcomes for both mother and baby.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Safe Motherhood Day, observed on\u00a0April 11 every year in India,\u00a0is a vital national campaign to raise awareness about the importance of maternal healthcare. It marks the birth anniversary of\u00a0Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, symbolizing the need to ensure respectful and adequate care for every pregnant and lactating woman.\u00a0Despite progress in reducing maternal mortality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5371],"tags":[2298],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-172898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2025","tag-important-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172900,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172898\/revisions\/172900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172898"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=172898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}