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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rachel Hagan

Baby clothes, razor blades and water buckets: Exposing the reality of global inequalities in maternal care

When 28-year-old Anshiya prepared for the birth of her sixth child at a health centre in rural Ethiopia, she did not pack the usual hospital bag, but instead a bucket. Her community in Gada Tokuma Kebele, in the south of the country, has chronic water shortages.

She is used to carrying water, but what's different this time is that – at eight months pregnant – Anshiya is packing the bucket alongside baby clothes.

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