A brave niece of one Mrs Koumate Monique , a Cameroonian woman pregnant with twins who passed away when she was denied medical attention at the government hospital , shocked bystanders when she openly with a razor blade performed 'cesarean section' to remove the twins from the belly of her late aunt.
She died at the gates of one of the main public hospitals of the city Douala (Hopital la Quintinie) when she was turned back because she had no money. Miraculously the babies in her womb were still alive.
The plea of the niece of the deceased for the lives of the babies be saved through immediate medical intervention, that she would pay for the intervention later on was all to no avail.
The mourning niece, alone with her deceased aunt and the babies moving in the womb, felt she was obliged to operate her aunt herself. She bought a blade in a shop close by, and in the midst of an amazed crowd cut the womb of the dead woman, in an attempt to save the babies.
One of the twins came out dead. The other was still breathing but some minutes later on died.
In recent weeks/months, there has been a huge number of people dying at the gates of cameroonian public hospitals, because they did not have the money to be taken care of.
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