Mothers and Babies Pay the Price: Inside Abim Hospital’s Doctor Crisis
On a humid Tuesday evening, in Abim Town, 23-year-old Agnes Akello from Aninata Parish, Abim Sub-county, cradles an empty bundle of cloth. She had gone into labor at dawn, but midwives at Abim Hospital said she needed an emergency C-section due to complications, she recalls, as eclampsia. With no single doctor on duty, she was…
