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Thursday, October 31, 2013

World's Busiest Maternity Ward

Dubbed the 'world's busiest maternity ward',  the natal wing at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila,Philippines serves the nearby Tondo slum, a former rubbish dump now home to half a million people


300 mothers arrive at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines each day


Mothers share a delivery room with at least five other birthing women 


New babies and their mothers sleep five or more to a bed



Head midwife Anna Prebus has delivered around 200,000 babies


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