1. Summary
In most developing countries, the health of the children is powerfully dependent on
maternal healthcare behavior. The study defines the prevalence of illness among infant
children in rural sugarcane rising community and the mother's health seeking behavior.
Diseases among young children are the major causes of illness and mortality mainly in
the developing countries of the world. Each year about 13 million infants and children die
in developing countries the Health Seeking Behavior by women at the time of pregnancy
and these women receiving treatment from” Aziz Bhatti Hospital”. Seeking care from a
basic or wide spread facility in response to obstetric problems is a key behavior promoted
in safe motherhood programmers. This study observed definitions of care seeking for
maternal health complications used by families in Pakistan and the frequency and causes
of locally-defined care seeking practices. Although the decrease of maternal mortality
levels is a key Millennium Development Goal, community-based indication on obstetric
complications and maternal care-seeking behavior remains limited in low-resource
countries. Despite these gaps in access to skilled delivery and real emergency obstetric
care, some progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality levels. Mostly women
at the time of pregnancy consult homeopathic, spiritual and traditional healer as well as
allopathic medicine they were mostly visiting hospital for the purpose of treatment. Case
study method was used as a technique of data collection. There should be proper
mindfulness created by family head specially women’s relatives for the purpose of health
seeking at the time of need. Women enabling through improved girl child education, skill
achievement and financial independence will increase the level of independence in
decision making and generate the suitable health seeking behavior which can improve
maternal and child survival in the developing countries. Women include over one-half of
humankind. Improving their reproductive health is vital for improving general health. It is
the basis for women’s empowerment and one of the foundations of social and economic
development. Thus, investing in their health is an asset in development today; it is also an
investment in future generations.

2. Conclusion
Improved obstetric care and decreasing levels of fertility and unwanted pregnancy may
have played dangerous roles in addressing the maternal health care needs of Pakistani
women. The results from both the bivariate and multivariate analyses established the
importance of birth order, residence, mothers’ education and wealth index in explaining
the use of health care services. Female education retains a net effect on maternal health
service use, independent of other women’s background characteristics, households’
socioeconomic status and access to health care services. However, the study results are
inconclusive with respect to the effect of other inclining and enabling factors, such as
women’s age, work status and household decision-making autonomy. Multivariate
logistic regression estimations do not show any significant impact of these factors on the
use of maternal health care services. Families generally seek care for complications, but
care seeking does not agree to definitions used by maternal health programs. Local
definitions of care seeking must be careful in interference design so that promotion of
care seeking increases for facility-based care for life-threatening crises rather than
accidentally increasing the use of home-based treatments of little medical value for
prevention of mortality. Health education targeted at those close connections that are able
to influence decision-making among women will be able to make modern health services
her first choice. The time missed in reaching a consensus on the need to seek health care,
in a health facility with the aid of a decision maker in the family, who could be the
woman herself, husband, parent, and mother in law or any other significant person in the
family. The health seeking behavior of women of reproductive age can control the
absence or presence of phase one delay and affect the occurrence of maternal mortality in
most communities in the developing world. This study was carried out to find out the
extent rural women in the reproductive age group can take decisions, on their own, on the
need to seek modern health care among alternative choices in the community. These
alternatives include self-treatment, medicine by traditional healers or unqualified persons,
dispensary, and private or public medical institutions.

3. Recommendations
In order to improve the health of mothers and children motherhoodcare programs have to
be appliedin the context of overall socio-economic development. The range of
community based services should be extendedto improve utilization of maternal health
care services.
Since most women in all regions of Pakistan fail to give birth at health institutions
mostlybecause of old-stylebeliefs, efforts have to be made
(a) To create awareness concerningthe benefits of motherhood care services;
(b) Torallythe general public, the elderly and religious leaders.
Currenttraditional birth attendants carrying out delivery services in almost all regions are
not trained in the deliveryof motherhoodcare services; they should be trained.
Furthermore, establishmentmotherhoodcare services at primary health centers and
providing all health needs of women (and their children) is crucial to run complete
childbearingcare services. The government and other concerned bodies should also make
efforts to expand general community based education so that women can have better
access to informationaboutmotherhoodcare. Women themselves should be able to
understand that they benefit from motherhoodcare services. They should, thus, be able to
take proper measures knowingthat prevention is much better than cure