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Ìý Iraq Babies Wednesday 7 May 2003 Ìý
It is now almost a month since the fall of Baghdad, and as women there try to get their lives back to normal, some of the greatest challenges are faced by expectant and nursing mothers.

Since the end of the war many hospitals have been looted, incubators and oxygen cylinders have been stolen, and after 12 years of sanctions, essential medication has long been hard to come by. It is still very common for only one baby to survive a multiple pregnancy, and for mothers to die in childbirth - not because of the lack of expertise of the doctors, but because of the inadequacy of equipment and supplies of antibiotics.
Joanne Cayford speaks to a doctor and several Iraqi mothers from one of the more ransacked hospitals.




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