Belly Woman: The Untold Story

By Benjamin Oren Black

Genre:-Non-Fiction

Pages:-300

Publisher:- Neem Tree Press

Blurb:- Belly Woman shines a light on a story often left untold 

May 2014. Sierra Leone is ranked the country with the highest death rate of pregnant women in the world. The same month Ebola crosses in from neighbouring Guinea. Arriving a few weeks later, Dr Benjamin Black finds himself at the centre of an exponential Ebola outbreak. From impossible decisions on the maternity ward to moral dilemmas at the Ebola Treatment Centres. One mistake, one error of judgment, could spell disaster.

  An eye-opening work of reportage and advocacy, Belly Woman chronicles the inside journey through an unfolding global health crisis and the struggle to save the lives of young mothers. As Black reckons with the demons of the past, he must try to learn the lessons for a different, more resilient, future.

  'A must-read for our times = riveting, illuminating and humbling' - AMINATTA FORNA, author of The memory of Love and The Devil That Danced on The Water.

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My Review:- This is a book that I feel you need to read yourself, as I don't think I can put into words how it honestly makes you think and feel. This book has been the first book that has made me feel really emotional, the stories are so moving and heart breaking. You can see from the beginning of the book that it is different from what you expect, a pregnant woman is brought to hospital on the back of a motorbike and is now lying on the floor in front of the hospital steps while staff look on not knowing what next.

A lot of us don't think about what happens in other parts of the world such as Sierra Leone as we only hear about it in the news, this book tells you how it is on the front line. Dr Benjamin Black travelled to Sierra Leone in 2014 to be a surgeon/midwife knowing about the bad health care and high death rate  in pregnant women and their babies. Arriving at the time of the Ebola outbreak made it even harder as the death rate grow higher than anyone would expect and it was also made harder as nobody understood anything about it. 

This is a book that will tell you first hand just how different living in a country that health is at it's best to a country were nothing is expected from the healthcare even when the medical staff try their best.