Women speak of violence during childbirth in DR Congo

Like many women in hospitals across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sara suffered violence during childbirth.

Two years on from the birth of her first child, she says she will never do it again.

Sara said she underwent an episiotomy — a surgical cut to the perineum — while giving birth and the doctor at the hospital in the capital, Kinshasa, tried to stitch her without anaesthetic.

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