“The maternity ward used to be very dark. The lights that we had at the facility was insufficient, although we worked around it anyway... simple things like charging a phone was difficult, yet we needed our phones powered in the event that we needed to communicate with other health facilities the event of an emergency referral case,” says Jovia Kabugho, a midwife at Mitandi Health Centre III, in Kabarole district
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