Wajir leads in new births, Nyanza in mortality
- 5 years ago
Women in Wajir are giving birth two times more than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
The survey indicates that Wajir women are having four times the number of children as their counterparts in Kirinyaga, at an average of eight children while those in Kirinyaga have an average of two.
Women in Nyeri and Kiambu come close to meeting the government goal of two children per household at an average of three children.
At the launch of the report on Thursday, Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri said the numbers correlate with the use of contraceptives by women in those counties with only two percent of women in Wajir and Mandera using contraceptives compared to 76 percent in Kirinyaga.
“The story is that men from that region (Central) come in at 3am. You have no time to have babies at 3am. Others are too drunk to open the door, they sleep on the door step and then people jump over them as they go to milk their cows. That’s not true.”
The survey indicates that Wajir women are having four times the number of children as their counterparts in Kirinyaga, at an average of eight children while those in Kirinyaga have an average of two.
Women in Nyeri and Kiambu come close to meeting the government goal of two children per household at an average of three children.
At the launch of the report on Thursday, Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri said the numbers correlate with the use of contraceptives by women in those counties with only two percent of women in Wajir and Mandera using contraceptives compared to 76 percent in Kirinyaga.
“The story is that men from that region (Central) come in at 3am. You have no time to have babies at 3am. Others are too drunk to open the door, they sleep on the door step and then people jump over them as they go to milk their cows. That’s not true.”