(Source: Partners in Health) When a pregnant woman in rural, southeast Liberia visits a public health clinic near her home, here's an example of what she might find. The clinic has no plumbing, so buckets of well water are brought in to try to keep things sanitary. Ever since someone stole the diesel generator a couple of months earlier, it hasn't had electricity. Women give birth at night by the glow of a kerosene lamp. Those delivering during the wet season have it even worse. 'The rains come through a hole in the roof and flow into the delivery room, so the floor is slippery,' explains the 28-year-old nursing student in charge, while demonstrating the wide stance he uses to maintain...
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