Maternity Ward

The UN decried Friday the intentional destruction of complex and hard-to-obtain medical equipment in Gaza's beleaguered hospitals and maternity wards, further deepening risks to women already giving birth in "inhumane, unimaginable conditions".

A woman was allegedly forced to deliver her baby outside the maternity ward of the civil hospital here after being denied admission despite waiting for more than 12 hours, officials said on Saturday.

A newborn baby was killed following a Russian strike that hit a maternity ward in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, Ukrainian emergency services said Wednesday.

It is 6:00 pm when the sinister wail of the siren rises above the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. Very calmly, hands on their bellies, the women slowly make their way down two floors to the basement of maternity hospital Number 3.

A nurse was suspended and a show-cause notice was issued to a doctor after a 26-year-old woman allegedly died due to negligence of the staff in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district.

In the city of Muzaffarpur, 98 have died at the Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH) and 19 at the city's Kejriwal Maternity Hospital.

A woman gave birth to the baby boy while traveling on Jan Nayak Express on Monday night.

Under fire following several deaths in the maternity ward, a premier government hospital in Hyderabad conducted a puja, complete with havan (ritual offerings in fire) for the welfare of expecting mothers and their babies. Its organiser was a senior doctor and contributions came from several staff members.

In a shocking incident, a newborn was nibbled by rats in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Kishtwar with parents claiming that the baby died due to rodent bites.

A South African court today handed down a 10-year prison term to a woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from her sleeping mother in hospital 19 years ago, local media reported.

Thirteen prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out early on Wednesday in a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, Iraqi authorities said.

A fire tore through the maternity ward of one of Baghdad's largest hospitals Wednesday, killing at least 11 premature babies, medical and security sources said.

At least 11 prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday on a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, the health ministry said.

Famed philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who set up one of Pakistan's biggest welfare organisations and was revered as a "living saint" by many in the South Asian country, died in hospital late on Friday.

Celeste Nurse lay in a Cape Town, South Africa, hospital bed, groggy from the morphine masking the pain from her cesarean section three days earlier. In a cot next to her lay her newborn, a bushy haired girl. In her medicated haze, Celeste spotted a woman sitting near the maternity ward door.

The UN decried Friday the intentional destruction of complex and hard-to-obtain medical equipment in Gaza's beleaguered hospitals and maternity wards, further deepening risks to women already giving birth in "inhumane, unimaginable conditions".

A woman was allegedly forced to deliver her baby outside the maternity ward of the civil hospital here after being denied admission despite waiting for more than 12 hours, officials said on Saturday.

A newborn baby was killed following a Russian strike that hit a maternity ward in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, Ukrainian emergency services said Wednesday.

It is 6:00 pm when the sinister wail of the siren rises above the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. Very calmly, hands on their bellies, the women slowly make their way down two floors to the basement of maternity hospital Number 3.

A nurse was suspended and a show-cause notice was issued to a doctor after a 26-year-old woman allegedly died due to negligence of the staff in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district.

In the city of Muzaffarpur, 98 have died at the Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH) and 19 at the city's Kejriwal Maternity Hospital.

A woman gave birth to the baby boy while traveling on Jan Nayak Express on Monday night.

Under fire following several deaths in the maternity ward, a premier government hospital in Hyderabad conducted a puja, complete with havan (ritual offerings in fire) for the welfare of expecting mothers and their babies. Its organiser was a senior doctor and contributions came from several staff members.

In a shocking incident, a newborn was nibbled by rats in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Kishtwar with parents claiming that the baby died due to rodent bites.

A South African court today handed down a 10-year prison term to a woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from her sleeping mother in hospital 19 years ago, local media reported.

Thirteen prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out early on Wednesday in a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, Iraqi authorities said.

A fire tore through the maternity ward of one of Baghdad's largest hospitals Wednesday, killing at least 11 premature babies, medical and security sources said.

At least 11 prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday on a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, the health ministry said.

Famed philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who set up one of Pakistan's biggest welfare organisations and was revered as a "living saint" by many in the South Asian country, died in hospital late on Friday.

Celeste Nurse lay in a Cape Town, South Africa, hospital bed, groggy from the morphine masking the pain from her cesarean section three days earlier. In a cot next to her lay her newborn, a bushy haired girl. In her medicated haze, Celeste spotted a woman sitting near the maternity ward door.