In the few vaginal births that take place, girls are often left without strength, so doctors use techniques into disuse as a last resort to save the baby’s life. by Rodrigo Alfaro Eighteen hundred newborns die each year from unsafe deliveries in Paraguay, and at least 1,500 children lose their mother from preventable causes related to childbirth. This is just [...]
In the ICU, a mother feeds her child. In Paraguay, only 20 out of 100 children are breastfed.
A dying child was treated and sent home with his mother. The inability to make studies in the hospital leaves him undiagnosed, now he must take care of himself in order to survive.
The Legrado ward does not rest: there aren't enough Doctors for all the teenagers that come to the hospital in critical condition due to poorly performed abortions.
With clothes, blankets and food brought by their families, young girls recover from their birth without the necessary attention.
Statistics do not correspond to the reality of the maternity wards, where half of the mothers are usually minors.
Premature children born in Asuncion are assisted with available resources, rural physicians do not have a chance to keep them alive.
Mothers and children live with other patients, with no protection against the "vinchuca" and they are a room away from the tuberculosis-infected area.
lacking of medical records and studies, 90% of births are by Caesarean section, an intervention of which many women are afraid to
In Boqueron is common for babies to be abandoned by their family to die, then they are buried in bullet boxes
