Müzeyyen lay inside a car scared, in pain, and days away from giving birth. Anyone who could help her was buried under the rubble. Her hometown, Hatay, is unrecognisable after the devastating earthquakes that hit south-eastern Türkiye and north-western Syria in February.
“There are no hospitals, no doctors, we are in God's care now,” Müzeyyen said. She’d been living in the front seat of her brother’s car with her seven-year-old child and another family crammed in the backseat and trunk.
The most vulnerable group of people in the quake zones are pregnant women and mothers and their children. The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) estimates there are more than 214,000 pregnant women in the quake zones, 24,000 of whom are expected to give birth this month.
