Figure 2-Maternal health coverage for 2019 & 2020 for the month of
April to June (India)
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Although there is a general trend of increase in all above indicators
every year as the population of India is growing rapidly. The decrease
of such important indicators clearly signifies that covid-19 pandemic
have a negative impact on delivery of important health services such as
maternal and child health. The role of family planning is very important
in context of India. All important family planning programmes show a
decrease from previous year timeline for the same months indicating that
the population control strategy of India also suffered during this
period. See Table 5 & Figure 3 - Comparison on family planning