The entrepreneur shared photos from the maternity ward where she was born with thousands of friends and associates around the world.

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My mother had barely left the maternity ward when she decided that she would give me at least 21 silk saris when I got married.

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The fabled free-market zone is having to wrestle increasingly with welfare policy, and it is trying to pull up the drawbridge on the maternity ward somewhat.

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The mysterious infection began spreading from baby to baby earlier this summer at Rome's Policlinico Umberto Uno, whose maternity ward has ushered in generations of Italian infants.

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The obstetrician at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, one of the city's premier health facilities, has seen her maternity ward filled to capacity since the beginning of last year.

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a trade group, has compiled a list of such states: doctors are giving up and one hospital has been forced, after more than a century, to close its maternity ward.

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The revamp also includes a new day surgery unit, two new operating theatres, a short-stay surgical ward and a maternity unit.

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It has a dedicated maternity programme and a children's ward that deals with many cases of malnutrition, as well as other common diseases including malaria and HIV.

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