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An 80-Cent Maternal Drape Is Helping Prevent Deaths in Childbirth

An 80-Cent Maternal Drape Is Helping Prevent Deaths in Childbirth

A plastic pouch called the maternal drape is helping save women in childbirth.

It costs 80 cents.

The device is helping address maternal deaths, a major health problem around the world.

The source describes this problem as one of the world’s most difficult to solve.

It says the drape is helping save thousands of women, but gives no location or further details about its use.

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The maternal drape, as it is called, is helping to solve one of the world’s most intractable health problems.
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