VIDEO: Lamu labour pains

For years Lamu County has been listed alongside Mandera in the list of counties with the highest maternal and infant death rates.

A situation that has led locals to seek solutions to increase access to healthcare services. One of these is Umra Omar, a woman whose efforts to take much-needed services to far-flung areas across the country won her a nomination for the CNN heroes’ project last year. Yet as Wilkister Nyabwa found, much still remains to be done.