After six years of improving access to safe and accessible delivery, MSF hands over activities in Likoni, Kenya
Nairobi, Monday, 5 July: In the six years since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first started offering sexual and reproductive health services in Likoni, the sub-county in Mombasa has seen its capacity to manage complicated deliveries increase, making significant progress in reducing maternal and new born deaths.
Before 2016, there were no emergency obstetric or neonatal care facilities in Likoni. Expecting mothers from the subcounty had to cross over to Mombasa to give birth in the city’s main hospital. But the busy ferry crossing would often cause painful, sometimes even fatal, delays for women and their babies needing emergency obstetric care.
In the six years MSF has supported the Mrima Health Centre, it assisted almost 30,000 deliveries, performed close to 4,100 caesarean sections, conducted over 53,000 antenatal and some 28,500 postnatal consultations.