Italian government investigates after the deaths of five pregnant women

The women died in less than a week in four hospitals in the north of the country, which has one of the world’s lowest maternal mortality rates

The Italian government has launched a string of investigations after five heavily pregnant women died in less than a week, causing alarm in a country with a reputation for safe childbirth.

Italy’s health ministry has sent investigative teams to four hospitals in the north of the country following the deaths of women between seven and nine months pregnant.

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