Le Journal de la Photographie

Rodrigo Alfaro Teenage pregnancy, San Pablo Hospital ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro The absence of an anesthesiologist can cause enormous pain when inexperienced apply insufficient doses, and death or irreversible damage when the dose is high © Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro The result of pregnancy without adequate care are premature birth. In some hospitals they are assisted with bad equipment, other are simply left to die ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro In the rural areas the average is 5 children per marriage. When the mother dies in childbirth, the situation is critical because children have to care for each other ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro In Boqueron is common for babies to be abandoned by their family to die, then they are buried in bullet boxes ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro Mothers and children live with other patients, with no protection against the "vinchuca" and they are a room away from the tuberculosis-infected area ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro Lacking of medical records and studies, 90% of births are by Caesarean section, an intervention of which many women are afraid to ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro A dying child was treated and sent home with his mother. The inability to make studies in the hospital leaves him undiagnosed, now he must take care of himself in order to survive ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro The mothers are surrounded by various creatures, five children in this case. Discrimination and gender violence puts them in a place were they must procreate as much as possible ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro Post-partum care is scarce, mothers with their babies lie on mattresses a day and are sent home without the necessary medical tests ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro Minimum hygiene measures are not respected. A newborn baby is assisted by a nurse who makes the first care without gloves ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro The poor quality of medical supplies is inadmissible: in this case the needle breaks during epidural anesthesia in the marrow of this woman ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro The Legrado ward does not rest: there aren't enough Doctors for all the teenagers that come to the hospital in critical condition due to poorly performed abortions ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro With clothes, blankets and food brought by their families, young girls recover from their birth without the necessary attention ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro She crossed the Chaco Boreal on foot with her son, that morning the doctor is not there. In rural areas, salaries are paid to doctors who do not exist ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro In the few vaginal births that take place, girls are often left without strength, so doctors use techniques into disuse as a last resort to save the baby's life ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro A 15 year old Indigenous girl is recovering from a blood transfusion; her husband of 16 has been next to her for more than a day, unable to stop pressuring the arm of his wife for fear of bleeding ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro At the time of birth is common for adolescents to download the anguish withheld during pregnancy. The girl screams, and then asks me to help her out of there, thinking about childbirth as something that degrade her life ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro An indigenous woman with a sick child has been waiting more than a day for a ride to their community more than 50 kilometers away ©Rodrigo Alfaro Rodrigo Alfaro Pregnant women, mothers with their babies and their families live in the hospital courtyard for lack of space ©Rodrigo Alfaro