Dr. Doris Mbithi, one of just three obstetrician-gynecologist surgeons serving the entirety of Kenya’s Makueni County, was on her way to a morning meeting at the Mother and Child Hospital, the maternity section of the county’s largest referral facility, when she was alerted about an incoming patient. The woman, several weeks post-delivery, was bleeding profusely.
Malali is 35 and has been married for five years. In that time, she has given birth to five children. Three of her pregnancies occurred one after another and she lost two of the babies, born in poor health, before their first birthdays. Malali started taking oral contraceptive pills, but because she was swamped by
Maybe you read about it in the New England Journal of Medicine, or heard the World Health Organization’s announcement or saw Bill Gates’ tweets about E-MOTIVE—a just-published landmark study in which Jhpiego played an integral role. If so, good news like this bears repeating. If you haven’t heard about E-MOTIVE, we’re happy to share our take
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
