Fifteen years ago, Arri Coomarasamy was invited by a friend to spend a couple of weeks in Malawi. The then 38-year-old was training to be an IVF doctor and made plans to visit a local hospital.
“I remember going into the room, which was in fact the mortuary, and there were three dead women,” he says. Two had died of the same cause: they had bled to death after giving birth. “I guess what I saw in that room has never really left me in my professional life.”
