Closing the Gap: How a Donated Ultrasound Machine Dropped Maternal Mortality Rate by 90% in a Western Sierra Leone Community
In western Sierra Leone, a community hospital receives a donation of critical medical equipment: a portable ultrasound machine and printer. Serving a community of more than 5,000 patients a year, Dr. Hassan Sesay of the Bai Bureh Memorial Community Hospital hosts an ultrasound clinic four days a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Because the machine is portable, the equipment is hauled more than 44 miles west across potholed dirt roads to Evans Medical Center on Sundays and Wednesdays. The donated ultrasound equipment is the most affordable and accurate scan in the region, and...