Birth and death in Sierra Leone (20 photos) Bashny.Net

Nightmare of course, but so are born in Sierra Leone.
The situation in hospitals awful!




In Sierra Leone - one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world - one in eight women in Sierra Leone dies from complications after childbirth.



Girl looks at an empty duck on his bed in the hospital Kambia. The girl suffered a miscarriage. Alarmingly high number of miscarriages and birth of dead children in Sierra Leone began to subside in April this year, when the country was provided free medical care. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Two children sit on a bed in a therapeutic feeding center in Kambia. The center began to receive hundreds of malnourished children since the provision of free medical services to residents. Before that, children are not just brought to the hospital because the parents could not afford the cost of gasoline and treatment. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Woman lies beside her sick child. The government hopes that free medical care will help reduce child mortality. Hospitals need help to maintain standards at an appropriate level, and the region has not yet recovered from a brutal civil war. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



14-year-old Fatmai holding her son. This is her first child. She has a husband, but for five days in the hospital to her no one came. Fatmane caesarean section, because her pelvis was too small, so that she could give birth to itself. Thanks to the new Medicare program, this operation is free of charge, without her baby would have died. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Sick child in bed having dinner in the pediatric hospital in Kambia. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Woman takes ultrasound to determine the sex of the child. Kambia Hospital - the only hospital in the county with an ultrasonic scanner. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Mother breastfeeding her son. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



The doctor measures the child to a clinic for children under five in Kambia. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



The traditional midwife in the village with his Tonkolimba box for record keeping birth rates in the country. In this village in the first week of June were recorded eight successful births. Midwives help women give birth at home. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Local "coach" ambulance, where villagers brought to the hospital. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



A woman screams in pain during a Caesarean section. Now, this operation is available in Sierra Leone is free, but the financing is still not enough for a normal anesthesia. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



A healthy child is born through cesarean section. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



The midwife washes the baby in the maternity ward of the hospital in Kambia. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



The baby, born just a few minutes ago, asleep, while his mother is transported from the operating room. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Mother kisses her newborn in the hospital Kambia. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Doctors weigh the newborn for the first time in his life. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



But this baby was born dead because of the twisted cord. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



The nurse carries a dead child to give to his family. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)



Pregnant woman waiting for a doctor in the waiting room. (© Bethany Clarke / Eyevine / zReportage.com / ZUMA)