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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Johnson

Too scared to go to hospital: the pregnant women in Dominican Republic dying because of deportation fears

A woman's pregnant torso. She is holding her stomach. She has a canula in one hand and is wearing a white dress with sunflowers on it
A pregnant Haitian woman being treated in hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Photograph: Erika Santelices/Reuters

About an hour after giving birth on the floor of her one-room shack in the Dominican Republic, Lourdia Jean Pierre, 32, started gasping for breath.

Her husband, Ronald Jean, knew something was seriously wrong, and shouted for help from the neighbours.

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