Lobby groups have voiced concern that expectant mothers were shouldering the biggest burden of the walkout.
Non-profit CFK Africa said its facility in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Kenya, had witnessed a 200 percent increase in deliveries.
“While our maternity facility staff are seeing as many patients as possible, they have had difficulties when referring cases for emergency obstetrics that require specialised care, such as breech births,” the group’s executive director Jeffrey Okoro said.
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