First c-section at AMMCHC was a success!

On Thursday, May 5th in the early morning hours in Sierra Leone, the first c-section was successfully completed at the Adama Martha Memorial Community Health Center. This literally is a dream come true for Phebian Abdulai, the RN in charge of the project. Her vision was to start a health center in her home country of Sierra Leone and to specifically help with maternal-child health needs. With the donation of surgical instruments, a skillfully trained surgical team, the addition of a well-trained doctor and God's faithfulness, her vision has become a reality.

The reality is that many women and children die due to poor access of prenatal care and c-sections if they are needed. There is only one hospital in the Kono district serving 500,000 people that performs this type of surgery and often times the hospital is not staffed and the doctor is unavailable. Since we now have the capability to perform c-sections at our health center, we are stepping in and filling a huge gap in maternal-child health. We are grateful to God for His blessing on our project and to all who've helped along the way. This has taken hundreds of people who have a heart to serve the least of these in our world.

Mother and Baby are doing fine!