In this photograph taken on June 6, 2024 women seeking medical consultation arrive on a boat ambulance, a free service provided by Mama Baby Fund at Baba Island along the Karachi Harbour, in Karachi. On a densely populated island off Pakistan's megacity of Karachi, a group of pregnant women wait in a punishing heatwave for the only midwife to arrive from the mainland.
Each week Neha Mankani comes by boat ambulance to Baba, an old fishing settlement and reportedly one of the world's most crowded islands with some 6,500 people crammed into 0.15 square kilometres. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'Pakistan-Climate-Health-Women' FOCUS