Last month we had another emergency. Friends of Mme. Mesina approached us with the news that she had been bleeding for almost a week after having miscarried on the dirt floor of her home. We took her to the doctor and paid for ultrasounds and emergency lab work. She had lost so much blood that now she needed an emergency transfusion to survive. Unfortunately, there is no blood bank in the area, so we broadcast over the local radio station that we were looking to pay for blood, and were contacted by a few volunteers. After testing the safety of the blood, doctors performed the transfusion and she started to improve.
- Madame Mesina just after we brought her to the hospital. She bled for a week after her miscarriage.
The next day we took her by public bus, still bleeding, to another hospital 3 hours away, where she was hospitalized. We again covered for all her medical costs, including further blood transfusions.
Two days ago we returned to pick her up. She was very happy to see us, and her husband was waiting for her at our Human Rights monitor’s house. We gave her the new medicines the doctors prescribed and paid for her transportation back home.
Mme. Mesina when we picked her up at the hospital.
She came very close to dying from the hemorrage, so her husband was very happy to see her back!
New medicines.
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