The UN estimates 590,000 children have been saved, with deaths now at 42 per 1,000 births compared with 300 in 1994
When a woman goes into labour, Liberata Musabyimana always accompanies her on the walk to the health centre. Sometimes the knock on Musabyimana’s door comes in the middle of the night announcing a baby is due. Or the birth is so swift there is no time to reach the clinic. Instead, the 35-year-old farmer must act as midwife as happened recently.
“It was 10pm and the baby came so quickly it was born by the roadside,” recalls Musabyimana, who lives in Rwanda’s rural eastern province. “The mother-in-law cut the umbilical cord then someone arrived on a motorbike and drove the little one off to the centre.” Nine months on, both baby and 40-year-old mother are thriving.
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