The government and society at large has been urged to make proper decisions pertaining matters maternal health in order to save women in Kenya.
Dorcas Indalo, the project manager Amref Health Africa says women in Kenya are not dying because of diseases that cannot be treated but because society has yet to make good decision.
Speaking in Nakuru on Monday Indalo urged the national government to ensure health sector is given a priority.
“My appeal is to the government and even the counties that let us give priority to health sector and ensure that in our budgeting," said Indalo.
She also urged the media to take up the initiative in ensuring health matters are given airtime.
“The media is key in sensitizing the public on health matters and therefore I call upon our friends in the media industry to ensure a bill like this touching on health is sensitized to enable the public understand what it entails,”she said.
Meanwhile, Rose Akinyi Otieno, the proprietor of Midtown Reproductive Health clinic in Nakuru, said it worries that statistics now show there are 444 mortality in every 100,000 births an issue that should be addressed.
“We should stop hiding our heads in sand like the proverbial horn bill and assume that there are no abortion cases taking place, but rather we should come in and help give our views on this Nakuru County Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Bill 2014 which in one way or another it will help address this issue through some of its clauses,” she said.