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A new neonatal ward allowed Naphtal to survive and give others hope
Posted on Dec 21, 2020 Evaline Ngigie, PIH midwife mentor at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, holds Naphtal during the hospital s celebration of World Prematurity Day.
Photo by Doug Miller / PIH.
Fourteen weeks ahead of his due date, Naphtal was unexpectedly delivered on a rural farm on the edge of Kono District, Sierra Leone, miles away from any health facility. He and his mother, who was in dire condition after a complicated, unattended birth, were rushed by ambulance to Koidu Government Hospital, Kono’s only hospital. None of the family’s neighbors, who had scrambled to call for help, thought that Naphtal would survive: He weighed less than two pounds, and without intensive, specialized neonatal care care that had never existed in the rural, impoverished district, even at the highest-level health facility loss seemed certain.