Thursday 16 October 2014

Ebola crisis putting pregnant women, infants lives at risk: UN

Health worker checks the temperature of a baby entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Ebola crisis is putting the lives of pregnant woman and infants at risk with the spread of the virus in West Africa eroding health services needed for a safe birth and postnatal care, a United Nations official said on Thursday. The United Nation' Population Fund (UNFPA) said up to 800,000 women in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were expected to give birth in the next year but many are afraid to visit clinics or turned away from overstretched health facilities. ...




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