Maternal Child Quality Improvement Program

We have completed the final year of our 3-year Maternal Child Quality Improvement Program to enhance the care and improve outcomes for mothers and babies in the Matangwe region. Thank you! Your help made this a reality!

The Matangwe Hospital services rural and remote communities as the nearest government health care facility is close to 10 km away. To travel that distance requires the residents to navigate rough and dangerous roads most often by foot, bicycle or motorbike taxi. Specialist consultations are 72 km away and require a full day to travel. It is vital, therefore to improve the services locally.

Maternal and infant mortality rates in the county are among the highest in Kenya and indeed the world, as demonstrated in these charts. Our goal is to reduce mortality rates for mothers and babies by at least 20% by the year 2030. That will be five years post completion of our maternal child improvement project.

Our success so far

• We built a new separate state of the art Maternity wing

• We purchased new, state-of-the-art equipment for the 2 delivery rooms, special care nursery, mothers unit, and pediatric unit

• We continue to implement the World Health Organization standards for the Maternal Child Care

• We are working with our local health care community to ensure we have access to skilled specialists for all deliveries

• We have successfully completed our first cesarean section in our new facility

Thank you to our generous sponsors

Thank you to all of our generous donors who have helped move this project forward:

• Benton Street Baptist Church

• Regional Rotary Clubs (7)

• Gay Lea Foundation

• Harrison Cooper Foundation

• Luke Four Foundation

• Private Donors

  your continued support will Help Us Give these infants a better start in life

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact us at info@caringpartners.ca