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July 23, 2007

You think the NHS is bad?

Check out this account of childbirth in Yemen, where the average number of children is 7.9 (bring on the pethidin) and hospitals are beyond basic. Some very interesting pics here showing women giving birth in the full chador

Posted by Jennifer Howze on July 23, 2007 in Birth | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

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how do those women wear flip flops with tights?

Posted by: Wondermum | 27 Jul 2007 21:07:55

my thoughts exactly, Claire.

Posted by: kieransmum | 27 Jul 2007 19:16:59

I hope that the comments on this site are somewhat more intelligent than those on the linked site.

Looks to me like a dodgy bit of journalism too, patched together from Googled statistics.

But clearly there's a distressing human rights issue underneath it all.

Posted by: Claire King | 23 Jul 2007 20:22:26

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