Deliver on Your Own: Disrespectful Maternity Care in rural Kenya.
Adelaide M LusambiliViolet NaanyuTerrance J WadeLindsay MossmanMichaela MantelRachel PellAngela NgetichKennedy MulamaLucy NyagaJerim ObureMarleen TemmermanPublished in: PloS one (2020)
A focus on quality and compassionate care as well as more facility resources will lead to increased, successful, and sustainable use of facility care. Interpreting these results within a systems perspective, Kenya needs to implement, enforce, and monitor quality of care guidelines for pregnancy and delivery including respectful maternity care of pregnant women. To ensure these procedures are enforced, measurable benchmarks for maternity care need to be established, and hospitals need to be regularly monitored to ensure these benchmarks are achieved.