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Iraq: Mosul’s Expectant Mothers Just Cannot Wait

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF284404

Date taken / Date Recorded 10/09/2019 12:00 AM

Country Iraq

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Caitlin Ryan

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Duration 1m27s

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West Mosul, Iraq
Baby Jude meets his grandma for the first time.

He is one of around 170 little ones born at the two MSF maternities in West Mosul each and every week

There, MSF teams not only assist mums to deliver safely and free of charge

but also provide specialized care for sick and premature babies.

Babies like Sultan and Haroush; twin brothers born far too early, weighing just a kilogram each.

Two years after the end of the military offensive on Mosul,

the health system is fragile with some facilities still lying in ruins

and thousands of families living in poverty, struggling to rebuild their lives and their destroyed homes.

Many women are unable to access pre and post-natal care or afford even the modest fees for delivery in local hospitals
Emily Wambugu
Midwife Activity Manager

During pregnancy,we have noticed that they don’t attend to antenatal clinics. So, they don’t have any information to show how their pregnancy was from the beginning to the day they are coming for delivery.

MSF recently increased its maternity services in West Mosul and opened a brand new facility

because Mosul’s mums and babies just cannot wait.

Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare