The Best Photos from TIME 2010
Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone
Photographed by Lynsey Addario / VII Network
Comforted by her sister and a nurse, Mamma Sessay, 18, screams in pain and fear as she prepares to deliver the second of twins at a hospital in Sierra Leone. Sessay had postpartum hemmorrhaging and died while being brought to the one doctor in the hospital.
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