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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shah Meer Baloch in Quetta

‘The hospital has nothing’: Pakistan’s floods put pregnant women in danger

Woman and child on child on hospital bed with women standing next to them
Naseeba Ameerullah made a punishing 12-hour drive with labour pains to get to a hospital after searching for an ambulance. Photograph: Shah Meer Baloch/The Guardian

Crying, vomiting and eight months pregnant, the young woman walked in labour pains for an hour in search of an ambulance.

When Naseeba Ameerullah, 23, eventually found one, she had to beg the driver to take her. Pakistan’s floods had left the roads damaged and gridlocked, making what is usually a two-hour journey to the provincial capital of Quetta a punishing, 12-hour drive.

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