The plight of Mexico's Indigenous women.

摘要

It is not hard to find a case of a woman dying from childbirth in Chiapas. At one of the many pharmacies near to the city's main hospital, a worker tells of how her 26-year-old cousin began haemorrhaging after the birth of her second child, went into a coma, and died months later. "She had been going to the doctor every month", said the pharmacy worker, who asked that her name not be used.Many women in this impoverished state at the southern end of Mexico do not even get the chance to see a doctor. Medically, the problem begins with a lack of prenatal visits, and then peaks catastrophically with the difficulty in accessing surgical care when complications occur during birth and in the days and weeks afterwards.