Death in childbirth: grim prospects for women in Pakistani Kashmir

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Death in childbirth: grim prospects for women in Pakistani Kashmir

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/death-childbirth-grim-prospects-women-pakistani-kashmir-054554286.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/j08mPHFDtfE3ZEGdJOoLJg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/a4961565e27ca5576397684793ad8397adfc379f.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Fifty-four babies out of every 1,000 are stillbirths or first day deaths in Pakistani Kashmir" align="left" title="Fifty-four babies out of every 1,000 are stillbirths or first day deaths in Pakistani Kashmir" border="0" /></a>Sharda (Pakistan) (AFP) - &quot;We are afraid we could die,&quot; says Asmat Nisa, a mother-of-five set to give birth again. It is a dangerous prospect for women in the remote mountains of Pakistani-held Kashmir, where doctors are few and help is far. &quot;There is no hospital here and I have never seen a female doctor,&quot; explains Nisa, who is from the village of Arang Kel in Kashmir's Neelum Valley.</p><br clear="all"/>

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