by Michael Hynds | May 26, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
Recent headline figures from Health Action International indicate far-reaching problems arising for women in Sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic: More women will give birth at home and at other riskier settings because of transport restrictions and...
by Michael Hynds | May 22, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
For International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, Maternity Africa’s Founder, Dr Andrew Browning AM, shares some of his thoughts on the challenges facing fistula treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic:...
by Michael Hynds | May 14, 2020 | Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
Celebrating International Nurses Day earlier this week, Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre continued providing pre- and post-natal care, and delivering babies. Pictured is Rozalia, one of our nurses, who also celebrated with others in the nearby city...
by Michael Hynds | May 12, 2020 | Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
Maternity Africa recently hired a new doctor-in-charge at Kivulini Maternity Centre. After his orientation, he formalised a system of morning reporting. In attendance each day are the clinical supervisors, doctors, Country Director, matron, nurse training facilitator...
by Michael Hynds | May 8, 2020 | Kivulini, News, Story
This is Rehema, forty years old and the third of three wives. Her husband is 70 years old. She lives around 120 kilometres from Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre, and decided to come here to have her baby because she heard that it is a safe place to...
