Haitians See Pregnancies Rise in Quake Relief Camps
30 November 2010
Volunteer health workers carry a pregnant woman to the hospital at a makeshift camp set up in the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince, 19 Mar 2010 (file photo)
Denise Cheristal, 35, knows that she and her teenage son were lucky to escape with their lives from the January earthquake in Haiti. She now lives in a tent camp, where residents are packed together tightly with little access to clean water or health services.
Amid all the other changes, Cheristal says the quake also affected her outlook on the future.
She says her son was nearly killed in the quake and that, without him, she would have no other children. So she and her husband decided to have another child. Cheristal's baby is due in a couple weeks.
More than nine months after the quake, Cheristal sees other, younger women around the city who also are pregnant.
She says right now there a lot of pregnant women, but they may not have planned it like she did.
Around Port-au-Prince, some Haitians express concern about the number of young people getting pregnant without planning for it. Some fear that pregnant women and newborns face major health risks in a city where the quake made resources and public services scarce.
At one tent camp in the Delmas neighborhood, Lifrane Herold runs a small medical clinic backed by a local church. He says, with limited resources, they struggle to offer pre-natal care to about 40 pregnant women there.
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