Alice and her baby. Credit: UNFPA
According to Alice Furaha, When the labour pains started, she went to the Rwamwanja Health Centre expecting everything to be fine, but was shocked when the midwife told me that she needed to be referred to Fort Portal Referral Hospital because her baby was in distress. With the help of UNFPA’s support, a Ugandan Red Cross ambulance, Alice Furaha on 26 August 2012, delivered a healthy baby boy at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, some 80 kilometres from the settlement.
To support critical maternal health-care
services, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) gave more than US$200,000 to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) as part of a total contribution of $6.8 million for emergency assistance in Uganda.
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