The health system is also strained, with resources meant to serve women and children being reallocated to the fight the virus. Giving birth at home and denying your child the necessary vaccination is inviting a huge problem in future." To assure women that services are not interrupted, the government last week issued guidelines to ensure services for mothers and children remain accessible. “We have ensured that other healthcare services in all our facilities are not interrupted, and taken measures to protect patients against Covid-19 infection at the health facilities,” he said. The case was the same at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital with the facility recording a 60 per cent drop in births.

Source: Daily Nation May 28, 2020 06:56 UTC