Health workers at Mayuge health center IV have confessed to charging expectant mothers C-section fees over inadequate government supplies to the facility.
They charge between 250,000-300,000 Shillings for C-section to mothers in need of these services as a means of reducing maternal mortality. The money is used to largely purchase anaesthetic drugs and other post recovery medication for patients after the C-section.
Most of them who spoke on condition of anonymity say that a section of mothers enroll for antenatal services during the late stages of their pregnancies, which complicates the final maternal processes, hence contributing to the increase of C-section cases yet government supplies are scarce.
A midwife who spoke on condition of anonymity says that they were losing many mothers before covid19 time due to lack of supplies required in handling C-section, but after vigorous assessments, their superiors would prescribe and task willing patients to buy the required supplies from pharmacies of their choice.
