👋How would you react, as a pregnant 🤰woman, if hospitals ⛑️turned you away when your baby 👶was about to arrive? It seems so far from what we experience in countries such as France 🇨🇵, where I am based. Once again, we are so lucky🤞. When I was in Kenya🇰🇪, I witnessed several situations where pregnant women had been turned away by up to 4 public hospitals🏥 before reaching the mission-driven Tabitha Clinic.
Maternal 🤱and child 🧒👧mortality are still major issues 💥in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa, located in the south of Nairobi, Kenya🇰🇪. Carolina for Kibera, an impactful🌠 NGO fighting🔥 to alleviate poverty in Kibera, created the Tabitha Clinic🏥⚕️. It provides quality, affordable 💰and accessible maternal and child health services. Every year, it supports thousands of mothers 🤱and children and gives hope to a community 🤩that has almost no access to public health services.
We had the chance to meet Celestine and her husband 👫on their way to a new ultrasound at the Tabitha Clinic. Celestine was expecting her 4th child 👶and she was worried😟. A few weeks earlier, she had been bleeding 🆎and could have lost her baby. At the Tabitha Clinic, she received proper care💉 from mission-driven 🚀doctors at a subsidized price 💰she could afford.
Celestine mentioned three main challenges⛰️ for pregnant women in Kibera: district hospitals are too expensive💰, it is complicated to reach the hospital by public transportation🚊 when the baby is coming, and security 💥is an issue, especially late at night🌌. This explains why many women still give birth at home, in dangerous⚠️ and extremely poor sanitary conditions. Celestine has now decided to join the Carolina for Kibera🌠 staff to share her experience and convince pregnant women 🤰to be followed at the Tabitha Clinic.
🌠🌠🌠At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world!🌠🌠🌠
