Authorities in a flooded Indian state are building maternity huts for expectant mothers, the United News of India (UNI) reported Thursday.
Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of the Bihar state, visited one such hut, built with the help of the UNICEF, in a flooded block of Samastipur district.
"Please distribute sweets on my behalf when the first delivery takes place here," the UNI quoted him as saying.
His state's health department and UNICEF plan to set up eight more maternity huts, or makeshift labor rooms, within the next three days.
"In natural calamites such as this, women and children suffer the most. The suffering is compounded for women who are pregnant or supposed to deliver due to lack of antenatal and delivery services. Being able to deliver in a clean, hygienic environment by a skilled birth attendant could mean the difference between life and death for both the mother and child," Bijaya Rajbhandari, the state representative of UNICEF, said.
Source: Xinhua
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