Improve maternity care to end deaths at delivery

Over the past years, significant efforts have been made to improve maternal health. Despite the interventions, Kenya did not achieve the targets set by the Millennium Development Goals that required countries to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by the year 2015.

In fact, there have been continued cases of women losing their lives during delivery, both in urban and rural areas. According to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014, the country’s maternal mortality rate stood at 488 deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2008/2009.