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Enjoying maternity remains a pipe-dream

By Kwamboka Oyaro

"The foetus is not growing. We need to clean you up," the doctor at a private clinic in Kisii County told the desperate woman who was looking forward to the birth of her baby, after years of trying to conceive. The words were cold, even numbing.

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