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#Maternal Health: Why you are likely to lose your child after 5pm

Records at the Bungoma County Referral Hospital showing numbers of deliveries. [Duncan Ocholla, Standard]

Purity Mwangi was rushed to Bungoma County Referral Hospital a few minutes to midnight in May 2016. She was due for delivery any minute by the time she was ushered into the crowded maternity wing.   

Just like her two previous deliveries, Ms Mwangi expected this to also be a normal delivery and that she would be in and out of the hospital without any complications.

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