Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
For more than two decades now, 45-year-old Padmavati has been visiting pregnant women, mothers and newborn children in the Vijayawada district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With her, she carries several hardback paper registers – one for each village she visits – and carefully logs healthcare data as she goes. Padmavati is one of 293,000 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) in India - village-level female health workers who are the first contact persons between the community and the health services of India.
