An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth
The maternal drape, as it is called, is helping to solve one of the worldβs most intractable health problems.
Husaina Balarabe with her newborn, Aabid, in the maternity ward at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, in September.

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