Expectant mother’s pain after 16-hour search for where to deliver via CS

Judith Nabwire and her son at her home in Tanga Kona, Busia County, as she recuperates from caeserian operation that almost cost her life. [Akello Odenyo, Standard]

When Judith Nabwire arrived at Busia Referral Hospital, she was happy that time had finally come to trade her stinging labour pains with a bouncing baby that she had been looking forward to after nine months of waiting.

She was wrong. Her arrival at the hospital, at 9.30pm, marked the beginning of a 16-hour nightmare that would see her shuttled to three different hospitals bloodied and in debilitating pain.