Megacities << Back to Feature Page View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame. Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> House Call Photograph by Stuart Franklin Nurse Kanyaluk Tejanpongvarachai examines Juidaporn Netuark, eight months pregnant, on the floor of a house in Lad Prau, a poor neighborhood of Bangkok, Thailand. Netuark, 35, might have received the same prenatal care at a hospital, but it would have meant a long trip and an expensive doctor's visit. To keep the city healthy, government nurses bring free care to the poor.

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