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How Makueni reduced maternal mortality in less than three years

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Makueni Mother and Child Hospital. [File, Standard]

Samira Mwende and her little daughter Faiza nearly became part of these dispiriting statistics were it not for a surgeon and a nursing team at Kibwezi Sub County Hospital in Makueni County.

Mwende, already a mother of another child, went into labour and was rushed to the health facility.

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