Dr Kaliti: ‘You have to pick up lives’

Dr Kaliti is the only full-time obstetrician at the Bwaila Maternity Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.

With around 50 babies being delivered every day, the specialised care he can provide is often a matter of life and death for the mothers and babies who arrive at the hopsital.

“You have to pick up lives and put them together in a whole 24-hour cycle. So you want to sleep, but the reward of saving lives is too strong,” he says.

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