According to the Centers for Disease Control, Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
The statistics are worse in Harris County where Black women are three-and-a-half times more likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts.
SEE ALSO: $1.4 million in federal funding to address increased number of Black pregnant mother deaths in Harris CountyWalker says while giving birth to her son in 1981, the doctor had her push so hard that she ruptured an artery. After he delivered her son, she sat in isolation.A nurse eventually noticed something was wrong and called a code blue.She survived— but decades later lived through a similar trauma again with her daughter.
, which will provide 300 Harris County mothers with wrap-around care, including transportation, educational information, home visits, and more prenatal care.
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