Ethiopia: Under the Lights of the Delivery Room
In the Tigray region, in Ethiopia, solar energy is saving lives during complicated childbirths. From ALIMA.
Maternal health
How the Better Lives Foundation Built a Hospital — and the Workforce to Run It — in Sierra Leone
For two decades, the UK-based Better Lives Foundation has run a free hospital in rural Sierra Leone, training local staff, expanding into maternal care and dentistry, and treating thousands of patients each year, at no cost to those who walk through its doors.
A Maternal Hospital Opens in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
Save the Children has opened the first hospital dedicated to maternal and newborn care inside the world’s largest refugee camp, bringing round-the-clock emergency obstetric services to more than one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
A Rural Guatemala Hospital Provides Lifesaving Care to 100,000 Maya People. They’re Still Expanding.
Staff at Hospitalito Atitlán prevent maternal deaths, provide specialty surgery, and offer primary care at local clinics, supported by more than $7 million in aid from Direct Relief.
In Malawi, Maternal Healthcare Doctors Tailor Care to their Communities
Pothawira and Area 25 Community Hospital, bolstered by Direct Relief’s support, have built out surgical capacity, referral services, medical infrastructure, and even a maternal waiting home.