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Purpose In India, two third of maternal deaths occur in rural areas where there is lack of transportation facilities, lack of refrigeration to store the injectable uterotonic drug such as oxytocin, lack of skilled personnel to administer them and lack of sterile syringes and needles. Hence, this study was conceived to evaluate misoprostol as a safe, effective, easily administered non-parenteral drug...