International getting involed in Sierra Leone maternal mortality to cut down the tragedies women are passing through during childbirth. Ama Boateng, AlJazeera anchor pays visit in Bo District.
Below is how AlJazeera is reporting it:
In Sierra Leone, one in eight women risk dying during pregnancy or childbirth. This is one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. Only Somalia and Chad come higher. That means a woman giving birth in Sierra Leone is more than 200 times more likely to bleed to death after giving birth than a woman living in Sweden. But a new strategy being implemented in a remote area of the country has reduced the number of deaths by 61 per cent.
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