Private agony of Kenya's public clinics

Margaret Wanjiru would rather forget the experience of having her first baby at one of the public hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.

"I remember going to the hospital in 2001. I was in pain, like most of the other women, but we were made to sit on a wooden bench and were not allowed to go into the labour ward without paying," Wanjiru recalled.

Once in the ward, there were a lot of insults: "You are asked to spread your legs ‘like you did for your husband'," she said.

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