Liberia, Aug. 17 -- Summary

By Tetee Gebro, health and gender correspondent with New Narratives

CALDWELL, Monrovia - Saybah Kollie collapsed on a Sunday morning in early April, two days after her son's second birthday.

Her husband, Blama Kamara, and the community chairman rushed her to the closest clinic. Over the next few weeks, Saybah's family said, she suffered at the hands of a fake doctor who claimed he was qualified to operate and heal her, but who was in fact, a fraud preying on desperate families like hers.

"The only thing I wanted was to see her survive," says Kamara. The supposed doctor, Mohamed Ali Bah, warned him Saybah would die if he waited. "He said I should not take a risk with her life. So I trusted him."

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