The maternal and infant mortality rate dropped in TAR with medical and health conditions improving and the hospitalized delivery rate increasing fast.

The maternal mortality rate had fallen 159.2 percent after the Democratic Reform in Tibet and the hospitalized delivery rate increaed 43.26 percent.

Phurbu Drolma from TAR Health Statistics Office, said in old Tibet giving birth was viewed as a filthy act. The pregnant women had to labor in the dirty cattle pens. So the death of both mother and infants is very common without health protection. 5,000 pregnant women per 100,000 would die from deliverying.

With the help from government, more and more medical and health institutions with Lhasa as the center established in TAR after reform and opening up. 

TAR has built 7 city-level maternal and child health hospitals and 51 county-level maternal and child health care stations with 472 professionals and to provide care services.

Besides, there are some preferential policies for those herdsmen who give birth in hospitals, such as to reimburse medical expenses, to give 30 yuan and 20 yuan reward for each mother and to hand out free baby supplies. 

Tibetan medicine industry is developing rapidly these years. At present, there are more than 360 kinds of Tibetan medicine produced by 18 Tibetan medicine manufacturers.