The Extended Role of Health Facility Cleaners in Maternity Care in Kenya.

CONCLUSION: Cleaners' direct involvement in maternity patients' care is an alarming symptom of overburdened health facilities, insufficient staffing and inadequate training. This key yet overlooked cadre of health care staff deserves appropriate support and further research to understand and alleviate health system shortcomings, and to improve the quality of maternity health care provision. PMID: 31990643 [PubMed - in process]
Source: International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health Source Type: research