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amarsha5

Amid Ride-Booking Rivalries, Many Cairo Women Turn To Uber For Safe Passage : NPR - 0 views

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shared by amarsha5 on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • amarsha5 on 31 Mar 16
     
    In Cairo, taxi drivers are fighting the encroachment of ride-booking services like Uber. But many Egyptians, especially women, say they prefer Uber since they feel safer with the company's drivers.
diamond03

Video of woman giving birth at hospital doorstep triggers outcry in Egypt | Pakistan Today - 0 views

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shared by diamond03 on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • turned away by hospital staff
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  • uploaded to YouTube and published on news site
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  • appears to go into labour outside Kafr al-Dawar Public Hospital. Two nurses later run outside, duck under the sheet and emerge with a bab
  • video was a ploy by the woman’s family to discredit the facility.
  • provincial health minister had suspended the hospital director pending an investigation.
  • questioned the state’s commitment to the health of its population of 85 million.
  • “When hospitals let women give birth in the street, it raises questions of government negligence, no matter how much the government flaunts its commitment to women’s rights,
  • Egyptian healthcare system were high out-of-pocket expenses required from patients and low government spending,
  • “Look at the human rights here, where a woman has to give birth in the street when there’s a hospital right there
  • urged the couple to go to Alexandria, around 30 km (20 miles) away, for treatment instead.
  • insisted that the hospital provide an ambulance, security officers removed the pregnant woman from the building and she went into labour while waiting for a taxi.
  • shows her lying on the pavement just metres away from the hospital beside a stretche
  • everal women who appear to be comforting her, as well as her husband and various bystanders
  • government has promised to improve services.
  • hospital denies that it asked the woman to leave.
  • We do not allow any patients to be turned away
  • “Those who were with the patient chose to have the baby outside in order to videotape it and defame the hospital.”
  • diamond03 on 03 Nov 14
     
    A woman who was in labor was denied by the hospital. The hospital denies this and says they are trying to make the hospital look bad. 
agomez117

anthropologies - 1 views

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  • agomez117 on 10 Nov 14
     
    In the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek in Cairo, Egypt, a military tank faces off with a man, on a bicycle, carrying bread. This scene is a five-minute taxi ride from Tahrir Square, the primary spot within the city and the country where thousands of protesters are currently fighting against the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF).
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