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