County’s push to curb infant and maternal deaths pays off

Maternity nurses at Lodwar County Referral Hospital display how squat birth is professionally done. The county government was forced to innovate for special squatting stools to encourage women give birth in hospital after they shunned health facilities for fear of delivering on beds. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Did you know delivering while squatting gives a woman enough pressure to push the baby out as compared to lying on a bed? 

Ms Anne Adung says this is a common practice within the Turkana community that disregards women giving birth while lying on their back.