Ensuring safe deliveries in a humanitarian crisis in Maguindanao

Maguindanao, Philippines– Suraida Taguy, 30, was nine months pregnant in July, when conflict displaced her and her family from their village in Maguindanao Province in the southern Philippines. When she went into labour, she was rushed from their evacuation centre to a nearby health facility where she safely gave birth t o her sixth child.“Armed conflict is a part of our lives,” Ms. Taguy later told UNFPA.Despite the hardship, she knows things could have been much worse. She previously lost two children during childbirth.
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