(22 Dec 2022)
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Fulmeta village-Chhattisgarh - 15 November 2022
1. Various of health workers Lata Netam and Sukhram removing boulders from a riverbed to make way for bike ambulance to pass, Lata and a passerby pushing the bike ambulance to cross the river
HEADLINE: Sidecar ambulances help moms give birth in India
ANNOTATION: Motorbike ambulances are helping mothers give birth in health centers in Naryanpur district, in central India's Chhattisgarh state.
ANNOTATION: The motorbikes with sidecar hospital beds must navigate remote hillsides to reach mothers in their villages, sometimes stopping to dig a path.
2. Various of Lata and Sukhram using pickaxes to make way for the bike ambulance to pass through
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Orchha-Chhattisgarh - 16 November 2022
3. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Lata Netam, health worker:
“Most of the villages in this region are located on hills and there are no roads to reach them, we have to cross hills. There are many challenges but we feel a sense of service and bring them (pregnant women) here (to the health center) so we go even if it’s a challenge.”
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Orchha-Chhattisgarh - 16 November 2022
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4. Various of aerials of bike ambulance traveling past forests, hills and water bodies
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Orchha- Chhattisgarh,16 November 2022
5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Lata Netam, health worker:
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“As one woman after the other went back home after their delivery here and shared their experiences with other women in their villages and told them how they were looked after by nurses (at the health center) now many women are coming here on their own.”
6. Various of Phagni Poyam, a pregnant woman, being helped into the motorbike ambulance to be taken to the health center
ANNOTATION: Many local villages are 10 miles or more from decent roads. Chhattisgarh state has one of the highest rates of pregnancy-related deaths in India.
7. Phagni inside the motorbike ambulance with her infant with the paint on the ambulance reading (Hindi): “Ambulance service free of cost only for pregnant women and newly born”
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Kodoli- Chhattisgarh - 15 November 2022
8. Various of motorbike ambulance driving away
ANNOTATION: Bike ambulances were first deployed in Narayanpur in 2014. Today, there are 13 bike ambulances operating in three districts of Chhattisgarh.
9. Health workers and locals helping Phagni Poyam a pregnant woman cross river
ANNOTATION: This mother and son had to get out and walk a few times while the motorbike ambulance negotiated a tricky slope or a rocky riverbed.
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Orchha-Chhattisgarh - 16 November 2022
10. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sukhram, bike ambulance driver:
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“The roads are uneven, the terrain is hilly, this makes it difficult to take the ambulance to the houses of the pregnant mothers.”
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Orchha- Chhattisgarh - 16 November 2022
11. Various of The Associated Press reporter and photographer (not visible) following bike ambulance on a motorbike
12. Phagni Poyam and her infant alighting from the bike ambulance at a health center
ANNOTATION: Trust in hospitals and modern medicine is growing. In the villages, there are mothers who speak glowingly of the hospital.
13. Phagni Poyam and her infant sitting near the bike ambulance
14. Phagni Poyam and her infant at the health center
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Kodoli- Chhattisgarh, 15 November 2022
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15. Aerial as bike ambulance drives away
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