Abstract

Doctors without Borders came and were investigating. This was the condition when I came to Foya Borma Hospital in Liberia the last few weeks of Feb 2014. My daughter was there for a year with the Peace Corps. I was asked to help at the hospital. Before I had a tour of the facility, a nurse was yelling for me to go the OR to do a cesarean. I came in a dank, humid, hot OR room that was not as clean or equipped as the tent hospitals I had seen in the Air Force. An OR table was there from WW2 I believe with no monitors, no anesthesia machine, no oxygen, no electricity, and no running water. “The baby is dead” I was told.

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