Video: Filipino evacuation centre becomes a delivery room

Thursday 14 November 2013 12:46 GMT

Baby girl is born at a Tacoblan evacuation centre

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A woman delivers her eighth child at an evacuation centre as her anxious father watches on.

Despite the destruction and over 2,000 deaths that Typhoon Haiyan left in the Philippines, life carries on, along with new births.

A church in Tacloban city is now serving as an evacuation centre and a delivery room for heavily pregnant women who are ready to give birth.

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