Multi-agency committee to be set up to inspect maternity wards

Bheri Ramsaran

Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran yesterday an-nounced that he has instructed that a multi-agency committee-made up of women’s rights groups and others-to inspect the maternity wards at public hospitals in an effort to address the troubling issue of maternal death.

The minister, while stating that hospitals do have in-house committees that visit the wards and these would continue,