For most families, the birth of a child is a moment of joy and anticipation. But when complications arise, that joy can quickly turn into tragedy.
Across Liberia, patients and health workers say the inability to pay emergency care costs are leading to death and injury for mothers and babies.
As Fatu Kamara reports in this collaboration with OkayFM, some health care advocates are calling on the government to make childbirth free.

This report is a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the “Investigating Liberia” project. Funding was provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency which had no say in the story’s content.