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A newborn was admitted to Nangarhar Regional Hospital in eastern Afghanistan in February last year with sepsis and birth asphyxia, needing a constant supply of oxygen to survive. Yet the oxygen plant that supplied piped oxygen to 50 paediatric beds had stopped functioning – a month before, the Trump administration had ordered a freeze on…
Despite having the country’s largest budget for the biggest public healthcare network, 62 out of every 1,000 babies born alive in Punjab die before reaching their first birthday
At least 14 newborn babies have died in a fire on a hospital ward in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad
About 20 babies have been born in an alternative hospital after the temporary closure of a district maternity unit, health bosses say
For pregnant women in remote areas, reaching medical care can take days and cost a week’s wages. Distance is one reason a woman in a low-income country is around 35 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than a woman in a wealthy one, and one reason a baby born in a rural…