The group Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has expressed alarm over the “deteriorating lack of healthcare” for pregnant women in Gaza.
“Women stuck in dire conditions are giving birth in tents and public buildings. Those who manage to deliver in a hospital often return to makeshift shelters hours after undergoing a caesarean,” the group said in a social media post.
MSF described the experience of one Palestinian woman, Maha, whose name it changed to protect her privacy: She “went into labor as she arrived to hospital, only to be turned away because all delivery rooms were full. She returned to her makeshift tent in the cold. Unable to return to hospital, she gave birth to her deceased son in a public bathroom.”
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