Thursday, 15 March 2012

Tanga integrates mother, child health insurance fund in development plans



IPP Media: Living at Mikanjuni location, Donge Village in Tanga city, Ashura Omari, 37, has three children, Rama, Kassim and Mwantumu.
Apart from Rama – the first born, Ashura’s other two children were delivered by traditional midwives.
When the young woman, married to Choyo Salimu, a fisherman, felt labour pangs for her first child eight years ago, she requested her husband to take her to hospital.
She packed a pair of kanga and a kitenge in a bag and took with her 2,000/- which was all she had saved from fish sales.
On a bicycle, Choyo pedalled to Makorora Health Centre.

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