Honorable Mention / 2020 / Press / General News

Giving Birth in the Caos

  • Photographer
    Miguel A. Lopes, Portugal

The Portuguese nurse Maria Maceira of the Portuguese Red Cross helps a woman to give birth in the maternity in the hospital in the Macurungo neighbourhood of the city of Beira, in the province of Sofala, central Mozambique, 01 April 2019' Reports state that there can be up to 45 thousand women to give birth in the following months after the passage of cyclone Idai due to stress caused by the cyclone. Reports state that some 1.7 million people are said to be affected across southern Africa after cyclone Idai hit on 14/15 March 2019 and more than 1000 deaths