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Life beyond birth, India

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In India the incidence of women dying while giving birth is among the highest in the world. How...

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If Sulekha Lohar had only had access to an ambulance instead of that handcart.

If the clinic just had a doctor, instead of just empty shelves.

If the hospital only had a bloodbank, as we hear from American journalist Hanna Ingber Win, Sulekha's children might still have their Mother.

Also, a troubling closeup on reproductive health in one small part of the developing world there from Hanna, who specialises in maternal mortality reporting.

Listen to both of Hanna's dispatches at CBC Radio.

Hanna Ingber Win's recent coverage of maternal health from India and Africa has been sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the United Nations.

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