Reprieve for women as maternity is opened

Safaricom Foundation Trustee Rita Okuthe (left) hands a Mama Pack to Cheptoyo Yego, a first time mother at the new maternity facility at Chemolingot Hospital. [Yvonne Chepkwony, Standard]

The Safaricom Foundation has set up a Sh10 million maternity unit at Chemolingot Hospital.

The unit was equipped by Kenya Devolution Support Programme, also at a cost of Sh10 million, and has capacity of at least 20 beds, a delivery, theatre and postnatal room.