Estella Verdier keeps vigil by her sick four-month-old grandson’s hospital bed, praying for his recovery but placing her faith in the earthly healing powers of Liberia’s first ever children’s hospital.
The 46-bed unit, just opened in the country’s capital, Monrovia, by Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF; or, in English, Doctors Without Borders), is part of the country’s response to the challenge of repairing its wrecked health service as it emerges from the nightmare of Ebola.
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