‘Mortality rate reduction a must to meet SDGs’ Islamabad December 11, 2020 Islamabad: President Dr. Arif Alvi Thursday said that though Pakistan had brought down maternal mortality rate to 186 per 1,000 births, it was a must to reduce it further to 70 to meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. ”I think we must achieve this Sustainable Development Goal of 70 by the year 2030. We believe very strongly that if poverty in Pakistan has to be reduced, it is important that the health situation of the populace has also to be improved,” said the president while addressing a webinar on Pakistan Maternal Mortality Survey. He said as per demographic survey of 2006-7, the country had 276 maternal mortality rate per 1000 births.