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Pakistan, Peshawar, gynecology and obstetrics hospital, August to Dec 2014

Since May 2011, MSF runs a gynecology and obstetrics 30-beds hospital in Peshawar. The neonatology unit now has 15 inpatients beds for newborns with serious medical complications. The care offered by MSF are totally free. If there are many private maternity hospitals in the district of Peshawar, specialist obstetric services are not very accessible to the most vulnerable women (refugees, displaced, poor) or from FATA (Federal Administration Tribal Areas) as often expensive or of poor quality when they exist in public structures. In 2013, 374 new born and 3 717 women were admitted to the MSF hospital in Peshawar, nearly 40% with complications during pregnancy. Every week, an average of 62 deliveries were attended (the figure has doubled since 2012), 10 by caesarean section.

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