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Death at maternity



Hello, how is everyone doing today! It's with great sorrows that I mourn a dear friend Mary from Rusinga Island. She conceived almost 11 months ago and her delivery date had passed. Going for a health check she starts feeling some contractions. She then moves to labour which takes 3 days. Mary then gi birth to her bouncing baby boy then later succumbs due to insufficient blood and high blood pressure.

Mary has left behind her 4 children that she got from her first marriage and 2 kids from her second marriage. Everyone is trying to imagine how the baby is going to survive since Mary and her husband are both orphans.

Mary was the first born in family of 5 girls. Her parents later separated due to some misunderstandings as her father was really in need of a boy child. Her mother had to flee away leaving the children behind. Mary became a caregiver to her sisters forcing her to drop out of school and got married at an early age. Mary had a lot of struggles in that marriage as they had several domestic violences. Mary got out of that marriage with 4 sons. She later stayed alone but had no better way of surving with her son's. She then decided to try a second marriage but with a younger man. Mary has had lots of struggles even in her second marriage. Her husband engages in slot of infidelity and gives out several unrealistic reasons, claiming that Mary had already enjoyed in her first marriage. Mary has gone a lot of trauma in her marriage life even UpTo the time of her demise.

The main problem here is that both husband's have disowned Mary and none of them wants to burry her. Please let's come to Mary's aid as Mary was one of the strongest women I know of.

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