by Michael Hynds | Sep 25, 2020 | Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
Earlier this month a team of three of Maternity Africa’s midwives were welcomed to a large local factory to conduct a sexual and reproductive health outreach event for its staff. That first visit was so successful that a subsequent visit to the factory yesterday...
by Michael Hynds | Sep 17, 2020 | Board, Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
It was suggested to Dr Andrew some time ago that he writes a book about his times in Africa looking after women with obstetric fistula and the maternal health of so many others. After nine months of hard work, whilst attending to all of his other responsibilities, Dr...
by Michael Hynds | Sep 15, 2020 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Story
World Suicide Prevention Day is an awareness day observed on 10 September every year, in order to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides. Nearly all fistula patients suffer from clinical depression. Studies document the social and psychological...
by Michael Hynds | Sep 11, 2020 | Story
Sinyati is 19. Before coming to Kivulini Maternity Centre she already had one baby. Her husband works as a watchman 160 miles away in Nairobi, Kenya and Sinyati lives with her parents-in-law, at a village far from Kivulini Maternity Centre. Sinyati recently arrived...