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Nurse’s desire to save mothers in her village pays off

Nurse Antonella Leakono at work among her people.[PHOTO: BENJAMIN OBEGI/STANDARD]

Before Antonella Leakono arrived at Longewan dispensary in Samburu West, mothers depended on traditional birth attendants to give birth.

In many cases, such deliveries ended in the loss of both mother and baby. In a county where banditry attacks are the norm, other women met with the bandits' weapons before reaching the attendant's house.

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