Word: eclampsia
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...when complications ensue, with the right medical care, lives can be saved. But in Rwanda, where the causes of infection run the gamut from dirty swaddling cloth to unclean razors used to cut umbilical cords, lack of even the most rudimentary measures means that such commonplace complications as pre-eclampsia or sepsis can turn fatal. "Our resources are so limited, we can't put in an IV just in case there is hemorrhaging," says Silas Ruberandinda, director of the Mutenderi Health Center. "We can't even spare the catheters...
...fetus' heart may already have stopped beating when Nereciana died. The cause of her death remains unknown: pre-eclampsia may have brought on seizures, or her uterus may have ruptured. But a larger cause is blisteringly clear: Rwanda is a nation so poor in goods and so weak in spirit that it cannot even give birth to a future. Nereciana's death, a tragedy that still lives in Joseph's sad eyes, was part of the slow genocide of hope, a sin that can be undone only by the miracle of an outside world that cares...