C-Section in the outbacks
It was the eve of PNG’s 50th Independence, but for Mirriam Brown, a 32-year-old from Irimuku village, it was just the day for her routine check-up at Kikori Hospital. During the scan, Midwife Sr. Anea’s screen showed something unexpected, something wrong. The placenta was in the wrong place—a suspected placenta previa. At 35 weeks pregnant, Mirriam’s path to a normal delivery was very unlikely.