Coverage Of Postnatal Care

Compared with other maternal and infant health services, the coverage for postnatal care tends to be relatively poor. Increasing such coverage has been highlighted as a priority. For example, in Democratic Republic of the Congo 35% of birthing women receive postnatal care[13], in Kenya less than 20% women receive postnatal care, in India 44 % women receive any postnatal care within 48 hours after birth [14], and in Ethiopia only 17% of women receive postnatal care while 26% of deliveries were occurred in the health facility[2]. General, despite the fact that PNC services are made accessible to nearly all villages at lower or no cost and its effectiveness to save maternal and newborn life coverage of postnatal is still extremely low even