Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

Today, one woman dies in childbirth every five minutes. This is a very high number by global standards : one-fifth of all maternal and child deaths during childbirth in the world occur in our country. The high incidence of child marriage has a lot to do with this because maternal mortality is five times higher for girls under fifteen. Poor access to health-care is another reason; less than half of births in the country are supervised by health care professionals.

Indian women are last to eat in their homes and often unlikely to eat well or rest during pregnancy. Almost 60% of pregnant women are anaemic. Ill-health during pregnancy is compounded by illiteracy and ignorance, because a large percentage of pregnant women are extremely young teenagers. As a result, they give birth to low-weight babies and tend not to know how to feed them.

Almost half (48%) of our children under age five are stunted, an indicator of chronic malnutrition, and 70% of children under age five are anaemic. Malnutrition makes children more prone to illness and stunts their physical and intellectual growth for a lifetime. If this child is a girl, she has the worst of it, because there is gender bias in feeding practices. Infant boys are fed more often and for longer periods of time. Medical attention, even basic preventative care like vaccinations, is often withheld from girls.