indias doctors learn safer abortion techniques to cut maternal deaths | sophie cousins /

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At a hospital in Bangalore,doctors and nurses are being trained in a safer, quicker abortion procedure and how to better support the women in their careLying in bed clutching her abdomen, or a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in Delhi. Kiran,22, has just had an abortion using a method known as dilation and curettage (D&C) – a painful procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the uterine lining scraped out. “I didnt contrivance to beget this baby so I had to beget an abortion, and ” Kiran says. “When I sit up I beget very bad pain.Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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