Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario was born in 1973, and is an American photojournalist based in London. She works regularly for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and...
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on 29 November 2010
Every minute, a pregnant woman dies around the world from
complications during pregnancy, delivery or shortly afterward-from
Sierra Leone, to Afghanistan, to Haiti. Of the more than half a
million women who die during pregnancy or childbirth annually, 90
per cent occur in Africa and Asia. In Sierra Leone, the lifetime
risk of a woman dying from complications of pregnancy and
childbirth is one in eight.
This is the story of Mamma Sessay, 18, who screamed in pain and fear "I am going to die" as she lay on the delivery table at the Magburaka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. These words proved to be prophetic as Sessay had postpartum hemorrhaging and died after she delivered the second of twin babies.
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGERY OF CHILDBIRTH AND DEATH
This is the story of Mamma Sessay, 18, who screamed in pain and fear "I am going to die" as she lay on the delivery table at the Magburaka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. These words proved to be prophetic as Sessay had postpartum hemorrhaging and died after she delivered the second of twin babies.
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGERY OF CHILDBIRTH AND DEATH