For some women it will be a day of celebrating achievements. For many others, though, International Women’s Day will offer no respite from the absence of even the most basic care for their unborn babies. At the regional centre for one of the world’s largest medical humanitarian organizations, in Dubai, Saturday is a chance to raise awareness about the plight of hundreds of thousands of women in the region who still lack adequate access to proper maternal and neonatal care .From a clean and organized eighth-floor office in a commercial tower block in Tecom, a team from the regional headquarters of Doctors Without Borders – or Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) – is deciding the best ways to tackle some of the shocking and inexcusable gaps in maternal and child health care still prevailing across the Middle East.

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