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#Frontpage Africa #Childbirth #Labor


Emergency Childbirth Fees Push Poor Families to Fundraise During Labor, Leading to Death and Injury

By Fatu Kamara with New Narratives Summary: KAKATA, Margibi County — By the time Kolubah Kollie scraped together the last of the money, his daughter was already gravely ill. Zoe Kollie, 29, had been in labor for eighteen hours, some of it endured as she traveled over unpaved roads, when her family finally got her…

Fatu Kamara
Frontpage Africa

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