Safaricom and MPESA Foundation has launched Kes 38 million investments to provide Homa Bay County hospitals with maternal health facilities.

The investment targets over 100,000 people.

The initiative will ensure the safety of mothers during and after delivery and the well-being of their children across the county, especially in remote areas.

M-PESA Foundation chairperson Nicholas Ng’anga said that the collaboration will ensure they reach as many residents as possible, especially in remote areas.

We are committed to improving maternal and child health in this region because we believe that no mother should lose their child or their life while delivering due to avoidable circumstances and that every baby born is a life we should fight to save,” he said.

Further, Safaricom Foundation has renovated a Newborn Unit costing Kes 1.3 million at Homa Bay County Referral Hospital to increase the number of newborn babies from 10 to 35.

 In addition, under the Uzazi Salama initiative, M-PESA Foundation also aided in the construction of a new maternal, newborn, and child healthcare (MNCH) unit at Ndhiwa Sub-County Hospital, which cost Kes 36.9 million.

To add to that, Foundation also has a telemedicine programme dubbed Daktari Smart that provides specialist care in remote areas.

The initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of the County to provide quality and affordable reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health services and will benefit close to 90,000 women and children below the age of five years.

Since its inception, The Safaricom Foundation has invested over Kes 1.8 billion in education, health, economic empowerment, the environment, arts and culture, music, and sports.