About one in 70 women in India die from pregnancy-related complications, compared with one in 7,300 in developed countries, according to the latest international figures.
Human Rights Watch said there was evidence that Indian hospitals regularly turned away poor patients who could not afford to pay for services.
"When we take a woman for delivery to the hospital she will have to pay for her cord to be cut, for medicines, some more money for the cleaning. The staff nurse will also ask for money," said one health worker in Uttar Pradesh state.
The report came days after a study by Save the Children said 400,000 Indian newborns die each year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth.
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