Saving the Mothers:
A Canadian doctor becomes an advocate for Uganda’s destitute
Grief sweeps over Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese as she stands in the back hall of the university hospital in Kampala, Uganda. On a metal trolley before her lie five babies – three stillborn infants and two neonatal deaths. The wee bodies are wrapped in thin blankets. Name tags on each blanket identify the children’s mothers.
The doctor reads the names and then thinks of another mother – one who died of pregnancy-related complications in the same hospital a few hours ago. Six needless deaths in one day, she thinks. If this happened in North America, authorities would launch an investigation and heads would roll. But here? Nothing happens.
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