Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
comic strip overdue media

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

One charity I support when I can

is Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders. There is a blog entry on their site that really touched me about the frustration a doctor feels watching a young mother whose child died in her vagina during the days it took to get to their hospital, going into sepsis and eventually losing her own life as well, despite their efforts. In our country, the baby would have been delivered before it had a chance to kill its mother, and perhaps mother and baby would have been fine. But in South Sudan, it is another world entirely.

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