Life or death: Giving birth in Burma
Report from Democratic Voice of Burma

By LIBBY HOGAN / DVB, 3 November 2017

Cer Lui had to make a split decision — to either drive herself to the hospital more than six hours away by motorbike, or stay in her home with her seven children — and deliver her baby.

When her husband found her, she had bled to death due to post-delivery bleeding.

She’s just one of 2,800 women in Burma who die every year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Continued at source: https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/life-or-death-giving-birth-burma