Showing posts by Koki Agarwal.
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Ensuring Essential Health Care for Mothers and Newborns During the Pandemic
›Africa in Transition // Covid-19 // Dot-Mom // Guest Contributor // March 24, 2021 // By Koki AgarwalJoyce Makasi, a young woman in Kambiti village, Kitui County, Kenya, went into labor with her second child one afternoon in December 2020. She had just enough money to hire a motorbike to take her to nearby Waita health center. At the facility, the clinical officer and nurse told her she would need a cesarean delivery. It wouldn’t be her first cesarean, but COVID-19 presented new obstacles.