The loss of doctors, nurses and midwives to Ebola has pushed women back into unsafe birthing practices – but also created a blank slate for health reform
At the health post in Komrabai Station, a village in central Sierra Leone, a rickety birthing table stands in a dingy, damp room. The walls are covered in grime and blood. There’s barely any equipment or drugs to perform a safe delivery.
When Ebola struck the west African country last May, such places became amplifiers of the epidemic and were soon associated with the disease, pushing pregnant women back to traditional and more dangerous birthing practices.
While Ebola has set back progress on maternal health, it's also given us a clean slate for health sector reform
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