Midwives save lives – but more support for midwifery is needed

COX ’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/VANCOUVER, Canada –Salma cradled her newborn daughter in the shade, seeking relief from the heat of her tarpaulin shack in the crowded refugee camp where they live. Her older daughter and a few neighbours joined her, smiling at the baby. She is “a special child,” they say.Salma is Rohingya and, like hundreds of thousands of others, she fled to Cox ’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, following violence in her home community in Myanmar.
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