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Pregnancy and birthing must be safe

The main entrance to Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi. A woman delivered by the roadside on September13 after she was denied entry into the facility.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Society ought to sit up and agree once and for all on how our expectant mothers should be treated.
  • Prenatal care is often equally horrible, especially among the poor rural folk and slum dwellers.

It is so painful that mothers, in their course of bringing forth life, should be subjected to deathly conditions.

The greatest fear among expectant mothers is the delivery stage. Yet this ought to be a moment of relief, considering the afflictions they have endured for nine months.