Pediatric Maternity

After morning reports, I follow one of the doctors to do rounds in the female ward and maternity ward. As we step into maternity ward, it suddenly strikes me that the women are so young! If it weren’t for their bulging bellies heavy with near-term pregnancy, the room could pass for a pediatric ward. Many of them are still teenagers, but are already on their second, third, or higher pregnancies. Poverty breeds, oh how true that is. Just walk around the village; it is a rare sight to see a woman of childbearing age without a little baby on her back.