Dr. Linus Ettyang was at home in his Nairobi suburb last year when he saw a woman lying under a tree near his house, bleeding profusely from an incomplete abortion or miscarriage. He quickly put the woman in the car and drove her to the nearest hospital, run by missionaries. But the nursing sisters turned the patient away, saying they didn't treat women suffering from abortion complications. According to a report released earlier this month by the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF, women in Africa have the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, with women having a staggering 1-in-16 lifetime chance of dying while pregnant.