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 Delivery in floods [1]

Pregnant women after walking barefoot for tens of kilometres delivered babies without medical help. The babies were given names synonymous with devastation. Dukhni Devi of Sahuria village in Purnia gave birth to a girl at the Banmankhi relief camp in Purnia but feared her husband had been washed away. She named her baby Dahua, meaning

Publication Date: 
29/09/2008
Down to Earth [2]
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Kosi [3], Natural Disasters [4], Floods [5], Disaster Management [6], Nepal [7], Bihar [8]
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