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Logistical coordinator Leslie Bell and doctor Veronika Siebenkotten give a tour of the brand new MSF emergency obstetrics hospital, Maternit? Solidarit?. The hospital opened its doors in February 2009, to provide emergency obstetric care for the most vulnerable women living in the slums of Port-au-Prince. Haiti has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the Western Hemisphere: approximately 630 women die for every 100,000 baby born (compared to 5 per 100,000 in Canada).