Lack of delivery beds for PWD's hindering pregnant disabled mothers from accessing reproductive health services.
Figure 1 A disabled mother being wheeled to the facility-photo by Elizabeth Akiror. Soroti Regional Referral hospital is grappling with handling mothers with special needs. The facility which accommodates mothers from across Teso and sometimes beyond, lacks proper toilets, delivery beds and enough wheel chairs to cater for disabled mothers. Figure 2 A mother with her new baby in ward-Photo by Elizabeth Akiror. The expectant disabled mothers in Teso have raised concern over their inability to access maternal health care delivery services at the regional referral hospital. Stella Aligo, a disabled mother of one child and a resident of Soroti municipality who narrated her experience at the time she was going to deliver her first child recalls it was a very nasty experience that she wishes no other mother in her state should undergo. ‘’I wanted to go and defecate, the toilets were very dirty. Just imagine another able bodied person who is putting on shoes and also fearing ...
