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In Sierra Leone, 14 PIH midwives support mothers from preterm to postpartum care at Wellbody Clinic and KGH, helping reduce maternal mortality. Meet Aminata Kamara and Harolda Onike.

After centuries of extraction by foreign powers, Sierra Leone remains resource-rich but cash-poor, with little to spend on its population’s health. This injustice takes an extreme, visceral form in Kono District, where West Africa’s largest diamond mine sits a short walk away from Koidu Government Hospital (KGH), the district’s only hospital.