Once upon a time President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy president William Ruto announced free maternity services in all public heath facilities starting , June 1st 2013.
User fee in all public dispensaries have also been waived in line with Jubilee manifesto.Uhuru also assured Kenyans of his commitment to ensuring national unity inorder to fight ethnic tension and rivalry.
However seven years down the line maternity services are still expensive, common mwananchi can’t afford.
Today , hopeless and reeling from the symptomatic third-trimester pregnancy exhaustion, gave birth at Uhuru Park because she could not afford maternity expense.
she found a spot at the park where she hoped to gather her wits.
The previous night, her landlord had kicked her out for failing to pay Sh50 at a rundown lodging in Muthurwa.
Rebecca Atieno, 20, headed to Nairobi’s Uhuru Park, the only place she could find a moment’s solace hours later she welcomed a bouncing baby girl.
Last month, a man identified as Boniface Murage Wangechi, tried to smuggle his baby from Kenyatta National Hospital after he was unable to clear Ksh56,000 bill.
He was arrested and later freed.
This are just few cases of Kenyans who are going through hard time when it comes to maternity services.
How free is this maternity services? Do the President and his DP make any follower up of the projects they launched?