Health does not negotiate!

An expectant woman  had to walk six miles from her home to a district health center and ended up giving birth at a police station as health workers chased her away because she could not raise the required amount of money prompting her to report the case to the police. As a result, she delivered a pair of  male twins prematurely at the police station. Unfortunately, the twins died of coldness.

Another lucky expectant woman had to give birth in darkness because there was a black out at a general government hospital with no back up power  that prompted midwives to use  a mobile phone torch to assist the woman. when a minister’s driver is highly paid compared to a doctor,  it makes me question why our leaders do not consider that health is wealth and women are the mothers of our nation.  Given that we have very good medical training facilities why don’t we make good use of the few doctors we have and treat them as king and queens to avoid brain drain!