Haleema Shakur Still

And the trial we were doing at that time was called CRASH 2.

And CRASH 2, we were really pleased.

It was doing very well at this site.

And I was just telling the doctor who was looking after the trial at the site how pleased I was.

And we were standing in the emergency department at the time.

And patients were coming in and sort of going to different places.

And

A patient came in, was rushed behind a curtain and the next few minutes I could hear, you know, frantic efforts of resuscitation and a little bit later, just screaming.

And at the time I thought, you know, what's this?

So I said to the doctor that was with us, I said, what's going on?

And he said, um, that's a woman who's just come in with postpartum hemorrhage and we haven't been able to save her.

She's died.

And he said to us, you're looking at tranexamic acid for traumatic injuries.

Why aren't you looking at it for women who bleed to death after childbirth?

And at the time I thought, you know, women don't really die of postpartum haemorrhage because I'm privileged to live in a very rich country where women

don't often die of postpartum haemorrhage.

And that was the reason it wasn't even on my horizon.

But he said that it was an everyday occurrence to them.

This was something they were dealing with every day.

And by the time women came to them, they weren't surviving.