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Angolan mother died without assistance when giving birth to two twins

Manuela Gomes e Edna Mussalo


At the slat house in the Benfica neighborhood of Talatona, Luanda, Luísa had her last birth, of two twins. It was 2.00 in the morning. Without immediate assistance, she died. This angolan mother leaves 10 children behind

After having delivered childbirths at home on seven occasions and generating eight children, on the eighth pregnancy Luísa Morais Santareino, 39, placed two more children into the world on the 13th of May, in the same conditions as the previous ones, but this time time, it had a tragic end. She leaves ten children, the last four being twins.

It was in a slat house, located in a land in dispute, gave birth to the brothers Rosa and José, at two in the morning, and then had complications postpartum, which required immediate medical assistance.

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