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portada A Second Heartbeat: A Doctor's Global Quest to Bridge the Distance & End Maternal Mortality
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
182
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
ISBN13
9781918039108

A Second Heartbeat: A Doctor's Global Quest to Bridge the Distance & End Maternal Mortality

Namulindwa, Robinah (Author) · Good Reach Publishing · Paperback

A Second Heartbeat: A Doctor's Global Quest to Bridge the Distance & End Maternal Mortality - Namulindwa, Robinah

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Synopsis "A Second Heartbeat: A Doctor's Global Quest to Bridge the Distance & End Maternal Mortality"

The sound that would define a life arrived with the Ugandan rain: a frantic knock on a young midwife's door. What followed-a desperate motorcycle ride through a river of mud and the helpless failure as a mother named Scovia died for want of a simple injection just ten kilometres away-was more than a tragedy. It was the birth of a ghost, one that would ignite a global quest.Haunted by this preventable death, Dr Robinah Namulindwa set out across the world's most advanced hospitals, searching for a blueprint that could be brought home. Instead, she uncovered hard disillusionments: the invisible walls of injustice in South Africa, the alienating perfection of French medicine, and the hollow promises of Silicon Valley-where she once found a million-dollar tablet serving as a coaster for tea, a perfect metaphor for solutions that ignore human reality.Realising that no flawless model existed, Dr Namulindwa returned home not to copy a system but to build one. She learned to kneel, listen, and "speak in dust" with the women who were the true experts. Together, they created Ekerian-"The Guardian"-a resilient human-digital nervous system that saves lives when all else fails.At once a gripping personal story and a manifesto for change, A Second Heartbeat moves beyond tragedy to deliver a hopeful, proven blueprint. Reminiscent of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, it is that rare memoir which reads with the urgency of a thriller and lands with the weight of a revolution.

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