Chına Bırth Defects

epa02182741 Nurses attend to Fu-mei, an orphan from the Dujiangyan earthquake, after a surgery for congenital heart disease in Shanghai Children's Hospital ICU ward in Shanghai, China on 01 June 2010. The surgery was offered free of charge by the hospital. China's number of birth defects are on the risethe rate has nearly doubled in the past decade in several provinces mainly due to environmental pollution, as well as women waiting until they are older to have children.  EPA/STRINGER