Sierra Leone: Helping Pregnant Women Access Timely Healthcare in Sierra Leone

“When I went into labour, I started making my way to the nearest health centre, but then I felt one of my two babies coming, so I spread my cloth under a mango tree and gave birth on my own,” says Musa Yahyah, an Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patient in Sierra Leone.

“A traditional birth attendant helped me deliver the second baby under the mango tree. Afterwards, she called a motorbike-taxi to take me and my twins to the mother and child hospital in Hangha run by MSF, because I was bleeding a…