{"id":62996,"date":"2024-04-02T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/02\/headaches-organ-damage-and-even-death-how-salty-water-is-putting-bangladeshs-pregnant-women-at-risk"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:00:25","slug":"headaches-organ-damage-and-even-death-how-salty-water-is-putting-bangladeshs-pregnant-women-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62996","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Headaches, organ damage and even death\u2019: how salty water is putting Bangladesh\u2019s pregnant women at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photographs by Farzana Hossen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health Complex in Dacope, new and expecting mothers lie exhausted beneath fans that spin noisily above their heads. There are no dividers in the maternity room shared by more than 20 women, so visiting husbands are ushered out by nurses when someone needs attending to.<\/p>\n<p>Sapriya Rai, 23, has pre-eclampsia and is being monitored at the Upazila Health Complex<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/apr\/02\/headaches-organ-damage-and-even-death-how-salty-water-is-putting-bangladeshs-pregnant-women-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsiaPhotographs by Farzana HossenIn the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[826,327,2331,59,346,1186,1722,1214,61,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-water","category-bangladesh","category-climate-crisis","category-global-development","category-health","category-maternal-health","category-maternal-mortality","category-pregnancy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-water","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996\/revisions\/62997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}