Healthcare in Guinea: a life or death lottery. Bernadette, a midwife, wipes down a newborn baby girl at the Doko clinic Siguiri, Guinea Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. Guinea has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Behind her another midwife helps the mother who has had to give birth on the floor because the only delivery bed was being used by a mother who had just lost her child in labour. The body of the dead baby can be seen wrapped in a kanga on the table behind. The situation for newborn babies and their mothers in this west African country is dire. Of every 1,000 babies born in Guinea, 123 die before their fifth birthday. For every 100,000 live births, 724 women die. Guinea has the world's second-highest rate of female genital mutilation (FGM), after Somalia - 97% of women between 15 and 49 have been cut. Women who have had FGM are twice as likely to haemorrhage during childbirth, and haemorrhage is the leading cause of mothers dying in Africa. Inaccessible clinics, untrained and overstretched midwives and lack of medicine are among the challenges facing mothers and newborn babies in Guinea. ? Kate Holt / eyevine ? Kate Holt / eyevine
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