The Asia Regional Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) Council

India

Best Practices

July 13, 2025

Embedding RMC in a High-Volume Public Hospital: The Aurangabad Model

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This case study from Government Medical College, Aurangabad, demonstrates how respectful maternity care can be institutionalized in a busy public hospital. Initiatives such as birth companions, alternate birthing positions, and staff sensitization highlight practical approaches to improving woman-centred care.

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India

Best Practices

July 13, 2025

Advancing RMC Through In-House Training: The Fernandez Foundation Experience

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Fernandez Foundation’s in-house training model equips doctors and nurses with practical skills in respectful maternity care through scenario-based learning, reflection, and assessment. The initiative demonstrates how institutional ownership and structured training can improve communication, empathy, and care quality.

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India

Research Paper

May 16, 2025

Revisiting health systems to integrate perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services: perspectives from research, policy and implementation

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Mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities was cited as to play a key role in poor perinatal mental health in this paper. Read More...

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India

Research Paper

May 14, 2025

How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: a cross-sectional study with labour observations and community-based surveys

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A publication by WHO in 2019 of a four country study of mistreatment in childbirth that added to the global evidence base about validated tools to measure mistreatment during childbirth as well as the frequency of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar, and Nigeria. Read More...

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India

Research Paper

May 14, 2025

Defining disrespect and abuse of newborns: a review of the evidence and an expanded typology of respectful maternity care

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This review expands evidence on respectful care for newborns and families of stillborn infants. Building on existing respectful maternity care frameworks, it identifies additional categories related to accountability and bereavement care, strengthening understanding of quality newborn care.

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India

Research Paper

May 13, 2025

The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review

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This publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) offers a mixed-methods systematic review of the literature on the mistreatment in childbirth in seven core mistreatment themes. Read More...

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India

Best Practices

May 08, 2025

Introducing Birth Companion in Labour: A Quality Improvement InitiativeTamkin Khan, Ayesha Ahmad

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This quality improvement initiative introduced birth companionship in a labour ward where it was previously unavailable. Aiming to increase access from 0% to 100% within six months, it demonstrates how institutional change can support a key component of respectful maternity care.

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India

Best Practices

May 08, 2025

Birth companion in labor

Uploaded by Tamkin Khan

Introducing Birth Companion in Labor as part of Respectful Maternity Care. it was part of quality improvement project.

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Pakistan

Research Paper

March 06, 2025

Supportive and Respectful Maternity Care (S-RMC)

Uploaded by Waqas Hameed

The research brief present the S-RMC intervention and its impact on women's experiences of mistreatment and postpartum anxiety and depression symptoms.

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India

Best Practices

February 21, 2025

Mothers' Picnic

Uploaded by Dilip Sarwate

Developed in Chhattisgarh under the SUMAN initiative, Mothers’ Picnic familiarizes pregnant women with health facilities before childbirth. Through facility tours and counselling on maternal health, respectful maternity care, and gender equality, it helps women feel informed, confident, and prepared for delivery.

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