Sierra Leone: Bold Plan for Maternal Health

by MOHAMED FOFANAH

FREETOWN, Apr 30?, 2010 (IPS) – A woman alone: Josephine Bangali fetches water from the well to set to boil over a wood fire so she can sterilise her instruments.

The clinic is built of mud. In one of its three rooms stands a rickety bed where she can admit in-patients; it is also the room where Bangali delivers babies. She relies on a kerosene lamp at night – supplemented with a torch when she can afford batteries.

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