In 1955, Ganpat Lal Batto died in a road accident. His death left Shamshad very distraught, because her husband had been the focus of her life and they had both been extremely devoted to each other. He had handled many aspects of her career and contracts and had been a major positive energy behind her career progression. After his death, Shamshad became listless and lost the fighting spirit to pursue her career, which registered a sharp decline thereafter. Indeed, while Shamshad Begum was both an outstanding singer and a successful famous one, she was at some deeper level always a wife and mother first, someone who instinctively prioritised her family over her career. By nature, she preferred to keep away from the public glare and from business dealings, taking the view that it was rather unseemly for a lady to be involved in such things.
After her husband's death, Shamshad Begum began living with her daughter and son-in-law in Mumbai, first in south Mumbai and later at Hiranandani Gardens.[9][10] She gradually became a recluse and devoted herself entirely to her grandchildren, to the point that the general public was unaware of whether she was alive or dead. In 2004, a controversy erupted in the media, when several publications wrongly reported that Shamshad Begum had died a few years previously. Shamshad's family clarified in a press release that this was not so.[9] Her self-imposed seclusion is remarkable, because during all those decades away from the public eye, her old songs remained popular with the public and were often played on Vividh Bharati and All India Radio.[citation needed]
Shamshad was at the peak of her career right from 1941 to 1955 and was the most in demand female singer and highest paid female playback singer from 1940 to 1955. She was the lead singer for many films like Taqdeer, Humayun, Shahjehan, Anokhi Ada, Aag, Mela, Patanga, Babul, Bahar, Jadoo, Aan and more. But after her husband's accidental death in 1955, Begum became a recluse and stopped accepting singing assignments, including recordings, for a year. Though she had stopped recording for her songs in the year 1955 after her husband's death, the songs released between 1955 and early 1957 including songs from films such as CID, Naya Andaz, Baradari, Mr. & Mrs. '55 and other hits continued to be popular. At this juncture Mehboob Khan approached her in 1957 and said he wanted a full-throated voice for Nargis in Mother India. The first song she sang after returning to her career was "Pee ke ghar aaj pyari dulhaniya chali" for Mother India. She made a successful comeback, and subsequently recorded many notable songs for films such as Howrah Bridge, Jaali Note, Love in Simla, Bewaqoof, Mughal-e-Azam, Bluff Master, Gharana and Rustom-E-Hind.[citation needed]
The study findings are based on a qualitative study of 42 interviews with women and their families who had experienced perinatal deaths. These interviews were supplemented with 20 interviews with health service providers, female health volunteers, local stakeholders, traditional healers and other support staff. The data were analysed by employing an inductive thematic analysis technique.
Simple PHC measures are proven to prevent or minimise the occurrence of perinatal deaths. A range of evidence, from developed countries such as the UK and Sweden [21,22,23], and developing countries such as Indonesia, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Nicaragua [23, 24], shows that successful reductions in perinatal mortality were achieved by reducing neonatal deaths. These studies confirm that a large proportion of neonatal deaths can be averted with a relatively low level of resources by effective community and outreach interventions, such as the use of community midwives and hygiene education, before embarking on more expensive and technical interventions such as the introduction of neonatal intensive care units. Particularly, in high mortality settings, a number of community level interventions have been found to effectively contribute to reducing perinatal mortality [8, 9, 25]. The main purpose of these community/outreach interventions is to target women, their families and communities, and to engage them in health promotive and sickness/disease preventive dialogues. The ultimate purpose is to empower them to have control over their health and survival, with access provided to skilled professional care when needed.
Despite the national policies discouraging homebirths [60, 63, 64], almost two thirds of women still give birth at home in these regions [65]. A safe delivery kit (SDK) was previously provided to ensure safe and hygienic homebirth and to prevent infection, one of the most common causes of neonatal death. However, the strategy to discourage homebirths includes the discontinuation of the supply of safe delivery kits to the villages 7 years ago, as explained by an FCHV:
The journalist who was interviewed also mentioned that he was threatened a few times by local health workers when he wrote in local and national newspapers about the misuse of these incentives and the absence of health workers. Reports of health workers misusing childbirth incentives were also frequently heard during the fieldwork. During informal chats, local leaders also talked about misuse of childbirth incentives, the closure of health facilities during the day, staff absenteeism and stories of mother and child deaths. However, they lost sensitivity towards such issues and so preferred to remain quiet.
Possibly the worst pollutant is the microscopic PM2.5 because due to their very small size have the ability to get around the\r\nbodies defence mechanism and get deeply embedded in the lungs. The lodge in the\r\nalveoli which are tiny air sacs found at the base of the bronchial tubes. From\r\nhere they can easily pass into the bloodstream eventually entering the heart.\r\nThis can result in an irregular heartbeat, chronic obstructive lung disease or\r\nchronic bronchitis. For people with pre-existing heart problems, this can lead\r\nto premature death.
Possibly the worst pollutant is the microscopic PM2.5 because due to their very small size have the ability to get around thebodies defence mechanism and get deeply embedded in the lungs. The lodge in thealveoli which are tiny air sacs found at the base of the bronchial tubes. Fromhere they can easily pass into the bloodstream eventually entering the heart.This can result in an irregular heartbeat, chronic obstructive lung disease orchronic bronchitis. For people with pre-existing heart problems, this can leadto premature death.
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