In a bid to improve services for nomadic women, about 50 solar-powered bracelets with Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers have been given to expectant mothers. On the Yabalo visit in April, three of seven women in the area with GPS bracelets showed up. Home deliveries were the norm, with some mothers dying from bleeding during birth and even losing their babies to malnutrition. Health workers follow mothers who continue to wear their bracelets after giving birth, to immunise their babies in their first year, she added. Moyale hospital CEO Abduba said the results would be assessed and “we will then see how we can expand it throughout Marsabit”.

Source: Standard Digital May 02, 2019 08:44 UTC