Dr. Catherine Jackson-Cole has reported the loss of a baby’s life at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) commonly called Cottage hospital due to the hospital’s lack of surgical equipment to perform emergency surgery on the mother. https://twitter.com/jacksoncolec/status/1364139792301195267The surgical suture is medical equipment that is mostly used by doctors during surgery to close or hold wounds to the skin or other tissues. Maternal deaths account for about 36 percent of all deaths amongst women aged 15-49 years in Sierra Leone. Cottage hospital is one of the main referral hospitals in Freetown alongside Connaught hospital. Dr. Jackson-Cole is a medical practitioner at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital commonly known as ‘Cottage Hospital’.