Expectant mothers in Bungoma County have been urged to ensure they deliver in hospitals, dispensaries and health centers as a way of curbing mother and infant mortality rate.
Bungoma governors’ wife Margret Lusaka yesterday said that deaths resulting from women delivering their children at homes and through traditional mid wives are alarming.
The Bungoma first lady was speaking at Webuye County Hospital after donating clothes, sanitary pads, lessors and children clothes to mothers who had delivered and those waiting to deliver at Bokoli hospital and Matulo health center in Webuye West constituency.
She said that most of the expectant women in the county shun going and delivering at the hospitals because of lack of essential items needed at birth.
“We will be giving these items to all mothers delivering in health centers in the nine constituencies so that our mothers be encouraged to go and deliver at the hospitals,” she said.
The first lady encouraged the women to ensure they make use of the Beyond Zero mobile clinic van that was donated in the county by the first lady Margret Kenyatta to ensure they have proper health together with their kids.
She said that through her initiative of ‘skip a lunch’ where friends and well wishers have managed to sip having lunch every week and donate ten shillings in her office, the program has enabled mothers who are not well off to get proper essentials for their new born babies during birth.
Margret said that as the third largely populated county in the country, ensuring there is healthy babies and mothers who rise up children in comfort through access to proper medication is essential.
