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A Promise To The Missing Moms

A Promise To The Missing Moms

by The Daily Eye Team May 14 2015, 1:44 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secs

When Comfort Fayiah went into labor in Monrovia, Liberia, at the height of the Ebola crisis, her family could not find a health centre where she could deliver. Many centres were closed or extremely understaffed, with health workers afraid of getting infected by the disease. When she and her husband were turned away from the fourth hospital, she collapsed 10 metres from the entrance of the hospital in the pouring rain and began to deliver twin girls. Instead of receiving care from hospital staff, Ms. Fayiah was assisted by people on the street, some of whom shielded her from the nearby traffic.

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