Anaemia is chronic and severe. Sharma says miscarriages are very common and believes they are due to forced overtime, coupled with women's double burden of having to do housework as well. Quacks proliferate in EPZ slums, providing abortion for a fee. But horrors lie outside the clinic as well, in the daily lives of women. My daughters have to work as my income alone cannot sustain the family,' she says.
Home is a tiny room.
And seven families share one toilet. T K Rajalakshmi was awarded the Panos Reproductive Health Media Fellowship in 1998.