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Expectant mothers at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital who are infected with Covid-19 are being left to face the virus openly in the facility’s common isolation wing.
This has attracted the attention of maternal health experts who have pleaded with the government to consider setting up a Covid-19 maternity wing to provide isolation room for pregnant women who contract the virus.
“We do not have a special wing for handling pregnant mothers who test positive,” said a senior hospital employee who requested anonymity.
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