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AMBON, Indonesia – Before dawn, Mirawali woke up to pray, when she realised she was covered in blood. Heavily pregnant and fearing for her baby, she roused her husband Salman and together they rushed to the community health centre just a few hundred metres away. But with no doctor available, they were referred to ...