August 1, 2024

Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women’s Deaths Are a State Secret

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With a minidress stretched over her swollen and increasingly stressed body, Ms. Vásquez braved a motorbike journey across three rivers and gripped her belly through two jolting bus rides. But arriving at the first hospital was just the beginning. Over the course of 40 hours, Ms. Vásquez, a former high school athletic star, visited a second hospital, a third, a fourth. We have no sterile tools, they told her at one. No incubator, they said at another. By Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera. Full text -> The New York Times

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