Thursday 31 October 2013

Inside the world's busiest maternity ward where women sleep five to a bed and 100 babies are born every day

Crammed: The wards at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital are packed with mothers - more than five per bed
Rosalyn, already a mother of six children, is waiting to give birth. But she will not enjoy the privacy of her own delivery room, her husband Eduardo by her side.
Instead, Rosalyn will be one of the 300 new mothers crammed into the wards at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which sees, on average, 60 new babies come into the world every single day.
Space at the maternity wing is at a premium, so Rosalyn and her new baby will share with other mothers, usually five to a bed but sometimes more, and she will give birth as part of a group of six when the time comes.
Queued up: Labouring women have to share the delivery suite with at least five other expectant mothers

Documentary: Film maker Anita Rani surrounded by some of the new mothers at the Manila hospital

Uncomfortable: Post partum mothers are crammed into beds while their babies wait in a nearby nursery

Newborns: Documentary maker Anita Rani with two of the babies born at the world's busiest maternity ward

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