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Relief for mothers as state moves to ease delivery restrictions at lower-tier hospitals

Director General for Health in the Ministry of Health Dr Patrick Amoth. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

The Government is considering easing childbirth restrictions at lower-tier health facilities and may soon permit emergency deliveries to take place at Level 2 and Level 3 hospitals.

However, the Ministry of Health must first issue an administrative directive allowing these facilities to handle emergency births, reversing an earlier policy that restricted deliveries to Level 4 hospitals and above.

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