ကေလးေမြးရင္ မေအာ္နဲ႔ ။ တခါေအာ္ ၅ ေဒၚလာ

ေျပာင္ေျပာတာ မဟုတ္ပါ။ ဇဘၤာေဗြမွာ ကေလးမီးဖြါးခ်ိန္ နာလို႔တခ်က္ေအာ္မိရင္ ၅ ေဒၚလာဒဏ္ေငြေပးရတယ္။ ေဆးရံုမွာ ကေလးလာေမြးရင္လဲ ေဒၚလာ ၅ဝ ေပးရမယ္။ ဒဏ္ေငြမေပးႏိုင္ရင္ ေဆးရံုမွာ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ထားခံရမယ္။ ေနရသမွ် အတိုး တက္လိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အိမ္မွာတင္သာ ကေလးေမြးဘို႔ေရြးၾကရေတာ့တယ္။ UN အစီရင္ခံစာအရ ဇဘၤာေဗြမွာ ပ်မ္းမွ်ေန႔စဥ္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ၈ ေယာက္ မီးဖြါးရာကေန ေသဆံုးေနတယ္။

ဒီႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ GDP က တႏွစ္မွာ ေဒၚလာ ၅ဝဝ သာရွိတယ္။ တဦးခ်င္း တႏွစ္ဝင္ေငြက ၁၅ဝ ေဒၚလာသာရွိတယ္။ ကေလးတခါ ေမြးလို႔ ၅ ခါေအာ္မိရင္ ႏွစ္ဝက္စာကုန္ျပီ။ လူဦးေရရဲ႕ ၆၂% က လာဘ္ထိုးရေၾကာင္း ထြက္ဆိုတယ္လို႔ Transparency International ရဲ႕ အစီရင္ခံစာသစ္မွာ ေရးထားပါတယ္။ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ႏွဳန္း ၉၅% ရွိတယ္။

“ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ျမန္မာျပည္ တိုတဲ့တုတ္နဲ႔တိုင္းရင္ ရွည္ပါသည္။”

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၁၂-၇-၂ဝ၁၃ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/11/a-hospital-in-zimbabwe-charged-women-5-for-each-scream-during-childbirth/

A hospital in Zimbabwe charged women $5 for each scream during childbirth

By Max Fisher, Published: July 11

A nurse prepares sugar solution at a health clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. (DESMOND KWANDE/AFP/Getty Images)
Corruption is so systemic in Zimbabwe, one of Africa’s poorest countries, that a local hospital charges mothers-to-be $5 every time they scream while giving birth. That’s according to an extensive new report from Transparency International on corruption around the world, which also notes that a staggering 62 percent of Zimbabweans say they’ve paid a bribe in the past year.

The $5 hospital screaming fee, purportedly a charge for “raising false alarm” but clearly aimed at separating mothers from their money, is no joke. Gross domestic product per capita is only $500 in Zimbabwe; average annual income per person is about $150. Zimbabwean hospitals also charge a $50 delivery fee. This means that, in a country where underemployment is 95 percent and poverty is rife, a mother who screams a few times during delivery might owe half her annual income after giving birth.

According to a follow-up by Transparency International, women who can’t afford the high fees are sometimes detained at the hospital and charged interest until their family can pay up. As a result, many Zimbabwean mothers give birth at home because they can’t afford the charges. The United Nations reports that, on average, eight mothers die during childbirth every single day in Zimbabwe.

Transparency International says its Zimbabwe office contacted the national health ministry about the issue by sending, as such offices often require, a formal letter. The health ministry said it had received the letter, then apparently did nothing, and when the NGO followed up an official told the organization that they had lost the letter. Finally, a member of Transparency International was able to meet with Zimbabwe’s deputy prime minister, who promised to look into. Since then, the NGO says, it’s heard no more complaints about screaming charges – although the $50 delivery charge, impossibly expensive for many in Zimbabwe, remains.