Pregnancy is not an illness and child birth is a normal husttle free process that even occurs on the road side..... Before you lynch me let me expound. Many people want to go to the big hospitals so that they maintain their class (rich) especially the middle class ladies. The most important person during childbirth is not the doctor (unless there's an emergency CS ofcourse) but the midwife. Childbirth is done very well and competently in the middle level mission hospitals and even government hospitals. Mind you the experience in those hands is decades long. Pumwani is one of the best maternity hospitals (in terms of delivery) if you ignore the child theft/swapping cases.
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Sorry to all those who had issues with the hospital.
My son was delivered in this hospital, normal delivery ( thanks to God), in 2010.

But a week after, the mother developed a clot on the left thigh.....no one could explain this, but luckily, it was treated in a week and we were discharged.

I bet there are hundreds of cases that go unreported. Thank wazua for the info.

What are the requirements of starting a hospital?

If you can get yourself a whole day for the antenatal clinics, St Marys mission hospital in Langata is excellent. There is one in Thika as well and the queues are not as bad.