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Pakistan's 650,000 Pregnant Flood Victims

By Rediff News Bureau
September 10, 2022 09:42 IST
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Among the millions severely affected by Pakistan's devastating floods are at least 650,000 pregnant women.

Many of these pregnant women lack access to basic healthcare facilities in flood areas.

 

IMAGE: Pregnant women rest on beds as they undergo treatment in a hospital in Sehwan. All photographs: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

 

IMAGE: Nine-months pregnant Dilshad Allahwarayo, 32, walks to get a medical checkup while being admitted to a hospital in Sehwan.

 

IMAGE: Dilshad lies on a bed while being admitted to the hospital in Sehwan.

 

IMAGE: Women, some of them displaced by floods, wait for medical assistance at the hospital in Sehwan.

 

IMAGE: Hospital staff attends to day-old twin babies, whose mother has been displaced by floods on the outskirts of Sehwan.

 

IMAGE: Khalida, a woman displaced by the floods, rests beside her four-days-old baby girl in the hospital in Sehwan.

 

Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Rajesh Alva/Rediff.com

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