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Woman in Baluchistan gives birth on the floor of hospital

The heavily pregnant woman had almost lost her breathing. Her life at risk, crying for immediate help, she laid on a dusty floor in front of the labour room of the Teaching Hospital of district Loralai, Balochistan. With no bed, breathing intensely, she screamed at her sibling Juma Gull to get her a female gynaecologist to deal with her delivery. Yet, with no emergency functionality available for her at the hospital, her body numb, she lay on the dirt for two hours as she gave birth to a baby by herself. “We reached the hospital at 4 am in the