The poor pay the price for graft in Kenya with their lives

NAIROBI: In the last three weeks, the media has reported that two expectant women died in hospital while waiting for medical attention. They died on different dates, in different county hospitals. The women did not lose their lives because of birth complications. They lost their lives because of the collapse of the national and county health services.

In the same period the media also reported how the County Government of the City of Nairobi will no longer offer free maternity services because the costs incurred in the past have not been reimbursed by the National Government for the last six months.