Clinics and hospitals across the city were overflowing with the wounded.
Hospital admissions at weekends are different – they rarely come from outpatient clinics, which are held on weekdays: most are emergency admissions and tend to be more serious.
Belton told Guardian Australia that hospitalisation isn't always necessary, as in other states and territories the procedure is often carried out by GPs who have done diplomas in obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as in freestanding abortion clinics.
But few routine services, such as planned surgery, outpatient clinics and GP visits, are available at weekends.
Random nutritional surveys of children aged from birth to nine-years-old are being undertaken at health clinics and primary schools to determine whether malnutrition has spiked.
Countries such as the US, where freedom of speech was embedded in the constitution's first amendment, had nonetheless implemented exclusion zones around abortion and fertility clinics in some states, Hanks told the court.
Luke Disney, who heads the North Star Alliance, a public-private partnership delivering healthcare services via mobile clinics, is cautious: "Too much of the time innovation is simply about looking for technical solutions, which seems to chime with the quick-fix age we live in now".
Casa Jackson is one of few clinics to address openly and actively a problem marginalized by its own society.
In Rio the scale of the organisation running clandestine clinics became clear during the police operation.
Rehabilitation clinic Casa Jackson 'para ninos desnutridos' (for undernourished children) run monthly field clinics in order to reach out to malnourished children isolated in rural areas.
During her epic address, Davis was equipped with the trainers, a back brace and according to recent reports, a catheter, to help her persevere with her filibuster until the legislative session was eventually timed out and the bill, which would effectively close dozens of Texas abortion clinics, was significantly delayed.
