TURKANA, KENYA: 22 year old Gurati Sahado went into labour at a manyata in Burriaramia village, Marsabit County and was safely delivered of her first child, a bouncing baby boy. On hand to assist her in the home delivery were her mother and grandmother. But within days and as happiness permeated within the family, Gurati developed puerperal sepsis, a debilitating bacterial post-partum infection of the reproductive tract.