IF it were in Christianity, a doctor in Kigoma town jokingly said recently, Dr Godfrey Mbaruku would be revered as another Jesus Christ, for saving the region's pregnant women from being depleted by maternal mortality.
Before his arrival in Kigoma in 1987, Dr Mbaruku, then a young gynaecologist, but now deputy director with Ifakara Health Institute, most health facilities now available in the region were non-existent. Like in most parts of the country at that time, pregnant women, especially those who lived in rural areas, didn't have access to crucial health services.
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