Jemimah Kariuki
Jemimah Kariuki is a Kenyan doctor specializing in preventive medicine, maternal and child health. During the COVID19 pandemic she organised an ambulance service which enabled pregnant women to access maternity care. She was listed as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2020.
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[edit]- I was particularly shocked by a story appearing in The Standard about a woman who had died alone in the house due to Covid-19 scare and restrictions. I was like; excuse me, this happening in 2020? I knew I had to do something
- Kenya does not have public ambulances and I knew the answer to the escalating problem of losing mothers in labour was to provide not only a transport service but also a call-center that they could reach out to – one that was easily accessible to pregnant women – Wheels for Life
- Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award,| 2021-05-25,By Jayne Rose Gacheri
- While birthing Wheels for Life, I just tweeted to reach out to many Kenyans out there who would like to offer any assistance where possible to women in labour and couldn’t access the hospital, and the response was amazing leading to the inauguration of Wheels for Life on April 28th, 2020
- The sky is the limit, and I would like to see myself growing and pushing to spearhead the establishment of many such initiatives
- It breaks my heart to see teenage girls become mothers out of sexual abuse, early sexual debut, and other vices, and I would like to spearhead a movement that can deal with these teenage issues
- Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award,| 2021-05-25,By Jayne Rose Gacheri
- "It has been a journey of people telling you that this is not where you are supposed to be and consistently having to fight to prove that I am exactly where I am supposed to be."
- "No woman should die while giving life. No woman should walk through their pregnancy journey alone."
- "For the young in society, this shows you can make it. And to all pregnant women, the world cares about your life."
