When giving birth in Sierra Leone looks like a death sentence

By Mabinty M. Kamara Skepticism, even fear gripped me as hospital workers carefully wheeled me to the labour ward to deliver my child at about 11:30 am on a normal Friday. Thinking of the many women who had been in a similar situation but couldn’t make it alive, my labour experience was indeed less of a pain and more of fear that I may die in the process. At that point all I

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