Solar power, text messages fight maternal deaths in rural Cameroon


  • World
  • Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016

IDENAU, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Julianna Senze, 40, had been in heavy labour for eight hours when she arrived at the Idenau Health Centre in Limbe, on the southwest coast of Cameroon.

Like many women in the country, she had had no prenatal care, so what should have been a routine delivery was now a high-risk medical procedure. The nurses, looking worn and tired, rushed her to the delivery room.

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