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Nigeria: Taxis for Maternal Health

In Nigeria, inadequate hospital transport methods contribute to one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Africa. But a joint, new transportation effort is reportedly helping save lives.

  • Nigeria:  Taxi for Maternal Mortality

    ThinkAfricaPress, 8 March 2013

    A frail, pale and breathless woman was bleeding profusely during childbirth at the make-shift maternity ward of Primary Health Care (PHC) centre Dogon Dawa in Kaduna State,… Read more »

Maggie Fick

The maternity ward at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, Nigeria (file photo).

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