Aadisht fisks P.Sainath’s latest editorial in the Hindu on maternal mortality.
What Sainath omits, of course, is that India’s population is one billion people, much more than that of Nigeria, Afghanistan, and the DRC taken together. What is very curious is that the report puts the lifetime risk of dying in childbirth and the deaths per hundred thousand childbirths in the same table, and Sainath doesn’t use these measures, which are far more useful and worthwhile.
I’m sure P.Sainath is an excellent journalist but that’s the beauty of statistics. You can make them say whatever you want to.
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Bombay Addict
Nov 1st, 2007 at 11:19 am | #
I think it’s “maternal”.
Patrix
Nov 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am | #
Argh! Guess we are on a misspelling spree. Fixed now. Thanks for being the unofficial spellchecker