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Georgiana Pieh, 21, right, suffers from eclampsia before and after giving birth to a boy by a cesarean section at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She was admitted to the hospital due to severe convulsions, and the doctors decided to perform a C-section. However, Georgiana, who was also anemic, passed away 24 hours after the surgery. She was unmarried, and the family was unsure whether the boyfriend would raise the child or not.
Each year, about 529,000 women die giving birth. In Sierra Leone, one woman out of 8 has chance of dying in childbirth during their lifetime. An African country with a population of 6.3 million people, Sierra Leone has 2,100 deaths per 100,000 live births, which is the highest maternal mortality ratio in the world according to UN; and 857 deaths per 100,000 live births from the government figure. The brutal civil war that lasted 11 years had ended in 2002; however, the country still suffered from poverty and lack of health care system which still resulted in the highest death rate of pregnant mothers in the world.
Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world only after Sierra Leone. An astonishing number of 25,000 women die from obstetric causes per year, or 1 woman dies every 27 minutes.
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