document: Midwife shortage costs over a million lives , report says Half of mothers give birth without any trained help in least developed nations KABUL -- More than a million mothers and newborn babies are dying each year from easily prevented birth complications because of a chronic shortage of midwives across much of the developing world , a new report from Save the Children said on Friday .
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abstractive_keyphrases: kabul more million lives report says midwife chronic easily newborn new birth complications