A hospitalised woman was forced to deliver her stillborn child with no assistance other than from a fellow patient’s visiting mother after doctors and nurses refused to assist her because the couple was too poor to pay, the couple and a witness said yesterday.

Reun Lao, 25, said he and wife Yi Srey Ny, 21, who was seven months pregnant, went to the National Maternal and Child Health Center at 8am on Monday, and waited for 16 hours for a midwife to deliver their unborn child. Continue reading: No cash, no care, man says

Reun Lao (left) and his wife, Yi Srey Ny, place incense yesterday on the tiny grave where their child, who was delivered stillborn on Monday, was buried in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post

Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – February 28, 2013)