Why did we have to lose all three?
Before you have finished reading this letter, another women will have died giving birth.
When Harriet finally made it to the hospital her twins were already in dire distress, and it was too late to save them. The twins passed away.
The medical team decided Harriet should deliver the twins, but her condition rapidly deteriorated with adverse complications. Harriet died.
Can you imagine losing your daughter and grandchildren in a matter of hours?
With compromised blood and platelet levels, high blood pressure, and impaired breathing, Harriet needed more specialized care and equipment, and there was no bed
in the High Dependency Unit (HDU). This hospital’s HDU could only accommodate three mothers in need of critical care. Harriet was number four.
The community around the hospital and Harriet's family contacted Save the Mothers following these deaths. They had heard of mothers lives being saved in the HDU provided by Save the Mothers.
"Why Harriet get help from that special room in the hospital that saves mothers?"
The unfortunate answer…there is too often no room in the HDU to meet the needs of the mothers and babies in East Africa.
