claim: More than 6 lakh high risk pregnancies identified.
evidence: New Delhi: More than 550,000 women were found to be going through high-risk pregnancies during screening between June 2016 to December 2017 under a government scheme for protection of pregnant women. [...] "Women identified as high-risk pregnancy were referred to a specialist or a higher health facility for appropriate care. Identifying high-risk pregnancies is the first step towards saving mothers and infants from preventable deaths," said J.P. Nadda, Union minister of health and family welfare, in New Delhi on Friday. [...] To enable early detection of high-risk pregnancies, 8.4 million haemoglobin tests, 5.5 million HIV tests, 4.1 million tests for gestational diabetes, 3.3 million tests for syphilis and more than 1.5 million ultrasound examinations were conducted under the programme. The government is also providing free of cost management of any existing clinical condition such as anaemia, pregnancy-induced hypertension and gestational diabetes under the programme.