Though the State Government has launched the Mamata Scheme to take care of expectant mothers, poor roads on the other hand have risked lives of many of them in the recent past.
In one such example, a pregnant woman of Adajala village under Kodipari panchayat in Rayagada district was carried on a stretcher for around three kilometre after the ambulance that was called in could not reach her due to non-motorable road. Midway, the woman who was suffering from severe labour pain delivered twin babies, a boy and a girl on a riverside. However, the baby girl could not survive. Later, the woman Phagudei Majhi was rushed to the Tikiri hospital in an ambulance. A two-member team was engaged for treatment of the mother and her son. Condition of the two is stated to be stable.