In Sierra Leone, New Hope for Children and Pregnant Women
| July 27th, 2011 | |
| in: | Humans |
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| by: | Redaktion |
| located in: | Sierra Leone |
| tags: | Africa, children's rights, health care, health care system, Sierra Leone, women |
WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — The paramedic’s eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase in patients had been fivefold, or tenfold. The exhausted paramedic had lost count in a blur of uninterrupted examinations and deliveries.
The word was out: it was no longer necessary to give birth at home and risk losing a baby or dying in childbirth. Hadiatou Kamara, 18, waited in the crowd. She had already lost a baby boy and girl. “They both died,” she said quietly....
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