The Ministry of Health has urged private health facilities to consider wellness facilities for the non-medical needs of mothers and babies that can improve maternal health outcomes.
Dr Richard Mugahi, the Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Reproductive and Child Health says that because they are overwhelmed by numbers in free government facilities, they have had to forego some aspects of maternal care which can be provided by private providers to those that are able to pay for them.
Mugahi says expectant mothers need to be prepared by experts right from when they are planning to get pregnant if they are getting the best experience out of delivery. He was speaking at the launch of a special centre for mothers and babies at the International Hospital Kampala (IHK) today.
