article_snippet: Many mothers in the country are forced to take expensive loans out to pay for hospital care, or like Soshma, face trying to care for desperately ill infants alone, often with tragic consequences.
article_snippet: The ambassador for the charity said of The ambassador for the charity experience travelling to the mountainous country, where there is only one health worker to every 1,493 people: 'As a mum, I know how terrifying it is to give birth, even with a trained midwife available to help.
article_snippet: Myleene Klass adds: 'I met mums who had to walk on foot or were carried for up to seven hours in a wicker basket to get to a clinic because there aren't any ambulances; women who had to give birth by the side of the road without a health worker present; mothers who couldn't afford basic medical care for mums who had to walk on foot or were carried for up to seven hours in a wicker basket to get to a clinic children
article_snippet: As a mum, I know how terrifying it is to give birth, even with a trained midwife available to help.
article_snippet: Looking at the facilities on the maternity ward...pregnant women can travel for up to a day to reach pregnant women nearest hospital .