Outside the main hospital in San Cristobal de las Casas, women in traditional multicoloured garb queue up to see a doctor. Many are pregnant or carry infants on their backs. One expectant mother says she fears there will not be a bed for her when she enters labour-all too common in the overcrowded hospital. Tales of deaths from hypertension, haemorrhage or infection during or after giving birth are common in the second city of the state of Chiapas. In a nearby village, one doctor recalls a woman whose journey took so long that she died on the street outside his clinic.
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机译：在圣克里斯托瓦尔·德·拉斯·卡萨斯（San Cristobal de las Casas）的主医院外面，身着传统多彩多姿服装的妇女排队等候看医生。许多人怀孕或背着婴儿。一位准妈妈说，她担心当她分娩时不会为她铺床，这在人满为患的医院中太普遍了。在恰帕斯州第二城市，分娩过程中或分娩后因高血压，出血或感染引起的死亡故事很普遍。在附近的一个村庄里，一位医生回忆起一名妇女，她的旅程花了很长时间，以致于死在他诊所门外的街道上。
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