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Guinea-Bissau: Maternal Mortality Among World's Highest
Sept. 8, 2008
According to Dr. Carrington, an obstetrician who works at Simao Mendes hospital in Bissau, Aisha's story is not unusual in a country with a handful of ambulances, next to no medical equipment and only one fully-functioning maternity ward.
Pregnancy spells a death sentence for 1,100 out of every 100,000 women in Guinea-Bissau, according to the UN Development Programme, making it one of the world's deadliest places to be pregnant.
"In two minutes a women here can die for a simple reason that elsewhere could so easily be solved," Catarina Furtado, Portuguese actress and the goodwill ambassador for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) told IRIN.
© 2008 Reuters
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/8491b3ca50c2d1b3f8d2a178da16a650.htm
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 8 September 2008
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