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Every time a mother gives birth in Kenya, she is rolling a dice with death. It’s a gamble that could end in joy or in tragedy. At the heart of this grim reality is postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a condition that silently kills more women in Kenya than road traffic accidents.
Medical professionals are raising the alarm, warning that while the public fixates on dramatic crashes and visible trauma, the deadliest threat to pregnant women is one that bleeds them dry sometimes in minutes.
“Postpartum haemorrhage contributes to over 34 per cent of maternal deaths in Kenya,” says Dr Mugeni Richard, an obstetrician-gynaecologist and Head of Department at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.
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