Khim Mar Tun is one of 30,000 pregnant women in the Delta today LABUTTA, 11 August 2008 (IRIN) - Khim Mar Tun almost died when Cyclone Nargis devastated her village in May. "Our whole village was swept away," the 28-year-old told IRIN. "Of the eight people in my family, four died. All of them were washed away." Six months pregnant and barely able to stay afloat, she spent nearly four hours in the water that swept away her home before being rescued. Three months after the cyclone struck, leaving nearly 140,000 people either dead or missing and 2.4 million badly affected, she is about to give birth. "I'm lucky, I guess," she said. "I've already been to the camp clinic and will give birth either here or at the hospital in Labutta," she said, referring to the largest town in the area, 3km away, at the southern tip of the...
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