ISLAMABAD: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said about 6000 pregnant women of the Internally Displaced Persons will give birth to babies during the same month.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday Representative of UNFPA, Daniel Baker informed that over 6000 women would birth to babies during the running month.He added that as many as 900 women may need lifesaving surgery for pregnancy related complications.

He said UNFPA in coordination with the government of Pakistan was providing reproductive health services to IDPs. Five clinics out of six could provide basic emergency obstetric care and one referral hospital was offering comprehensive services including Caesarean sections in NWFP, he informed.

Each of the delivery service points has a delivery room and an outpatient clinic offering reproductive health services including antenatal and postnatal examinations and family planning, he said. He further said that these facilities were staffed with female medical personnel including gynecologists, women medical officers, lady health visitors and skilled birth attendants.

He maintained that UNFPA was planning to extend similar support to more service delivery points in the coming weeks. In addition, he said the UNFPA has also started to provide communities with clean-delivery kits and births outside of health centres and essential medical instruments adding so UNFPA has provided 8,000 kits.

He also expressed his concerns over the lack of funds saying in health cluster alone 37 million dollars were needed but only 11 per cent has been received so far.