Together with her twins, Binta Jolloh returned to the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital one year after their birth there. This time, she was there to thank Doctor Yu Ling, who had helped deliver the babies. Yu, an obstetrician from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan Province in China, was a member of the 23rd Chinese medical team dispathed to Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa.
Sierra Leone has long struggled with some of the world’s worst health outcomes—including a maternal mortality epidemic in which a woman’s lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth is 1 in 20, according to estimates from the United Nations in 2022.
In the early hours
