Terrified mothers-to-be adjust after Beirut blast

Jassem rushed to a clinic in the days after August 4, fearing a miscarriage brought on by sheer terror AFP/ANWAR AMROBEIRUT: Seven months ago, Lebanese mother-to-be Rana Mneimneh was ecstatic she was pregnant, but after a massive explosion at Beirut's port, she lives in constant fear for her baby girl.

"I'm permanently scared there will be a new explosion. If I hear a loud noise from a car or any kind of bang, I'm petrified," she said.Among around 300,000 people displaced by the disaster, the United Nations Population Fund estimates that 84,000 are women of child-bearing age. Inside a mobile clinic in Beirut's Basta neighbourhood, 34-year-old midwife Heba Khoudary said mothers-to-be were struggling.

Run by the Makassed Islamic association, it is one of three clinics supported by UNFPA following the blast.Khoudary said the clinics were also key in providing free sanitary pads and other personal hygiene supplies to women now unable to afford them.The value of the Lebanese pound has tumbled against the dollar in recent months, sending prices soaring, especially on imported products.

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