Mbour, Senegal —“I became a mother before I became a midwife,” says Ndeye Bigué Ndiaye. “During my first pregnancy, my mother’s midwife looked after me.”
Ahora, people stop Ndiaye on the street to tell her stories of the children that she delivered.
Midwives play a crucial role in women’s health care in Senegal, where there are only 1,450 doctors for a population of more than 17 millón. Y 70 percent of these doctors are in urban Dakar.
Despite this disparity, Senegal’s health system is still doctor-centric.
