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Gbarnga \u2014 Sitting beneath the shade of an orange tree beside her mud-brick hut, Rebecca Blackie cradles her three-week-old baby, desperately trying to soothe his relentless cries. The 30-year-old mother, who gave birth on February 14 at Taylor’s Town Clinic, was discharged just a day later–not because she was fit to leave, but because the clinic had run out of essential medications.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what’s wrong with him,” Rebecca laments, glancing at her son, who suckles weakly at her breast….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gbarnga \u2014 Sitting beneath the shade of an orange tree beside her mud-brick hut, Rebecca Blackie cradles her three-week-old baby, desperately trying to soothe his relentless cries. The 30-year-old mother, who gave birth on February 14 at Taylor’s Town Clinic, was discharged just a day later–not because she was fit to leave, but because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10856,13085,6949,7111,4712,1107,10268,257,9467,254,12416],"class_list":["post-193571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clinic","tag-discharged","tag-drug","tag-hits","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-newborn","tag-news","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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