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Thread #76973   Message #1369739
Posted By: GUEST
02-Jan-05 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where to make donations.....
Subject: RE: BS: Where to make donations.....
This is from an article at today's Reuters AlertNet:

"There are at least 150,000 pregnant women in tsunami-hit areas who may face complications, including trauma-induced miscarriage, and need urgent medical and nutritional support, said the U.N. population agency (UNFPA).

"Over 50,000 women within the affected communities will give birth in the next three months," said UNFPA in a statement.

"The damage to health facilities and loss of basic delivery care supplies has jeopardised their chances to deliver under clean and safe circumstances," it said.

The UNFPA was supplying $3 million for basic maternity and hygiene kits for women, which will include soap for washing hands, a piece of plastic sheeting to lay on the ground, a clean razor blade for cutting the umbilical cord, a piece of string for tying it, and a cloth to wrap the baby in."