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It's 9am, a beautiful Thursday morning on Mfangano island. Inside the maternity ward at Sena Level 4 Hospital, we find Esther Odira sleeping on one of three beds. She is exhausted from a dramatic night that began with a call at around 10pm.
"I am a community health volunteer (CHV). I got a call from a colleague from a nearby village that there was a young woman in labour and she needed urgent attention," she says.
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