Assam: maternal deaths reported rose to 122 in August 2019, against 89 a year earlier (+37%).

Comparing a week or month with the same week or month a year earlier removes ordinary seasonality: monsoon-season fever, the March reporting rush. What remains is change the calendar does not explain.

For maternal deaths reported, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.

Compared with the same month of 2018, which removes ordinary seasonality.

Full history of maternal deaths reported in Assam