Wide AngleSeason 7, Episode 3 of 7 : Birth Of A Surgeon
"Birth of a Surgeon" travels to Mozambique where a bold grassroots initiative is training midwives in advanced life-saving surgery and cutting the maternal death rate in half. This program follows student Emilia Cumbane through intensive medical classes and night shifts in the delivery ward as she learns to heal the grave complications pregnant women encounter in developing countries worldwide. "Wide Angle" is in the operating room as Cumbane performs her first caesarian section and witnesses the beginning of one woman making a difference on the frontlines of public health in Africa. Mozambique's controversial program, the first of its kind in the world, may offer a solution to the life-threatening lack of doctors in other developing countries.
