In the last week of May, a 20-year old college-going woman in India's capital, Delhi, found out that she was pregnant.
The woman, Kiran, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, had already taken abortion pills on the advice of a friend who was a doctor. But they did not work and so, her only option was a surgical abortion.
บ้านผลบอล7mIndia, however, was still under lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. It had enforced some of the world's most severe restrictions, stopping air travel, trains and buses, and confining people to their homes as much as possible.
Although hospitals stayed open, they were instructed to only provide essential services. So many of the biggest ones shut down their outpatient departments and cancelled elective surgeries.
เช็คผลบอลสด That could mean women undergoing a surgical procedure because of a delayed medical abortion (the use of pills) or unintended pregnancies forcing women to choose unsafe abortions."Whenever disaster strikes, nobody talks about sexual and reproductive health," said Jasmine Lovely George, who runs Hidden Pockets, a platform that improves access to sexual and reproductive health. She said that her organisation's care line saw a sudden spike in calls during the lockdown.