BADIN, May 11: At least 70 per cent expectant mothers face death risk to their own lives or the lives of their newly-born babies in the rural areas of the district due to gynae diseases.

This was said by Badin Taluka Nazim Dr Musarrat Hussain Khwaja while handing over a cheque of the annual grant to the president, Awan-i-Sahafat, Badin district, the other day.

He said that one expectant mother in every seventh family in the district was facing death risk due to different gynae problems.

He said there were no proper medical facilities at the Basic Health Units in the district for the treatment of the gynae diseases, and added that only in a small number of government maternity homes and hospitals, the facilities for such patients were available.