Not a happy mother’s day story. Reuters: Battling to take death out of birth in Africa, by Skye Wheeler:
JUBA, Sudan, May 11 (Reuters) – Lying on a sagging mattress and wincingslightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should have been afraidof giving birth to her first child, now lying in a crib near her in ahospital in south Sudan.
"It’s natural," she smiles.
But in fact, she received a life-saving caesarean in the capital Juba’steaching hospital: a relatively rare operation in south Sudan where onein 50 women die in childbirth, the world’s highest maternal mortalityrate.