Kampala — EVERY pregnant woman has one foot in the grave," goes an African adage. This may sound crude today but it is the reality for many rural poverty-stricken women like Consolata Kebikali, 38. She has survived death nine times during childbirth, but has traded her luck for four of the babies she was trying to give life.
With a small plot just enough for their two-roomed house in Kibale village, Ndeijja sub-county in Mbarara district, Kebikali had never known the inside of a health facility or a gloved hand of a midwife during childbirth.
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