‘The hospital has nothing’: Pakistan’s floods put pregnant women in danger
A third of the country is under water and a UN fund says almost 650,000 women in affected areas need maternity services
Crying, vomiting and eight months pregnant, the young woman walked in labour pains for an hour in search of an ambulance.
When Naseeba Ameerullah, 23, eventually found one, she had to beg the driver to take her. Pakistan’s floods had left the roads damaged and gridlocked, making what is usually a two-hour journey to the provincial capital of Quetta a punishing, 12-hour drive.
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