Yemen: Lack of access to prenatal care leads to preventable

Yemen: Lack of access to prenatal care leads to preventable complications
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Yemeni Ministry of Health midwife Nadjat Eid Salim performs an ultrasound on a patient at Al Qanawis Mother and Child Hospital. © Karin Ekholm/MSF
Like most other women and girls in her village, 17-year-old Fatima* had no access to prenatal care during her pregnancy. She recently gave birth to her second child in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Al Qanawis, in northwestern Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, becoming one of the nearly 200 people that MSF assisted during childbirth in March.
For six years Yemen has been gripped by conflict that has decimated the country’s economy and crippled its health system, leading to spiraling fuel and food costs and putting medical care out of reach for many. "Life has become very difficult because of the war," said Fatima. "I had heard about MSF—that the care is good and free of charge. We can’t afford the private hospitals."

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