Uasin Gishu County Health Director Evans Kiprotich has urged pregnant women to ensure that they give birth in hospital in an effort of reducing child mortality rates in the county.
Speaking in his office on Friday Kiprotich said giving birth in hospital will guarantee an expectant mother that she will give birth well and incase of complications she will be attended to well.
“Through expectant mothers giving birth in hospitals cases of child mortality will be a thing of the past since children usually die due to lack of proper care by an experienced medical officer while giving birth at home,” he said.
He said giving birth at home is very risky since incase there is complications that may need an operation the local midwife cannot perform thus causing loss of lives that could have been prevented if only they could have gone to hospitals.
“Uasin Gishu County government has renovated and build modern hospitals and equipped them with a midwife and labour wards to be used to be used by women while giving births,you can also go to the mother and baby at the Moi teaching and Referral Hospital,” he said.
He challenged women to use the facilities instead of giving birth at home since it will guarantee them of hygiene, and proper medical care during and after birth thus cases of child mortality will be a thing of the past.