In Senegal, a mother’s ordeal exposes a health system under strain

Dakar, Senegal – Twenty-four hours before health workers across Senegal were due to walk out on strike, Awa Diba went into labour.

Her first child was coming into the world as hospitals prepared to limit services to emergency care.

“There is a lot of shouting,” Diba says.

“I saw things inside the hospital that shocked me.”

Her labour lasted 24 hours.

Her ...