Health Riders

As many as 12 medical workers in five subdistricts in East Flores received motorcycles to aid them in their duties. Maternal and child death rates are reduced.

March 30, 2011

MARIA Tadong Labina, 45, a citizen of Bentala village, went through a harrowing experience when she delivered her third child. “I was bleeding and the placenta could not be taken out.” There was no midwife present at the time because, at first, Maria wanted to be assisted only by her mother-in-law. Fearing that she might share the same fate with her neighbor whose child died during labor, Maria called for midwife Yanti via telephone. Riding h

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