Mendoza, Argentina
On Monday I started at a new hospital, Lagomaggiore. I spent this week on the labour ward, which was very busy - they average around 15 births a day. Being a public hospital, for people without insurance, the patients tended to be quite poor, with little education. I was surprised by how young they seemed to be, with a typical patient being around my age, giving birth to her third or fourth child.
Compared to Notti, Lagomaggiore is bigger, but the building i...