What is this madness?

As always I remember the log in info to this blog when I need to rant and rave!!Again healthcare delivery has made me mad, furious so furious...Saturday 5:30am. I have just fed the baby his early morning milk and as I put him to bed I idly scroll through my Instagram and see "Urgent appeal. My friend Druscilla is in the ICU and she needs platelets after an emergency C-section. That name sends off alarm bells - there are not too many Druscillas I have met in this lifetime.Can it be her - it has to be her - Mombasa. mother of one.Aga Khan  Hospital. yes it is her. I immediately send my sister a message. Have you heard? I start thinking oh em gee who do I know in Mombasa who can donate blood and better yet is O+ . Joan my good friend lived in Mombasa and is currently in Kenya visiting. I update her. She is in shock. She will ask her old contacts who are in the Aga Khan area to try donate. Tuesday 7am - as I refresh my Instagram feed - "Rest with the angels Dru." I drop my shoulders in defeat. A beautiful life snatched in its bloom. A husband left a widower with a newborn and a son. Its 2017 - the fact that a woman can die of childbirth "complications" makes me mad enough to have to put my thoughts on paper at 1:53am. To think that if you have a loved one who needs blood that in 2017 we are making appeals to somebody, anybody to "go donate" as they fight for their life. Like what is this? Like how is it that Kenya is competing at a world standard in technology, real estate, heck we paved the way for mobile banking worldwide through mpesa and yet as far as healthcare a woman can die of childbirth complications. I was reading an article and they did not even have the terms to articulate what happened - all they could say was there were complications in her limbs after she had the baby. What does that even mean? I just dont know where the turning point will be as far as healthcare delivery systems. I guess maybe there are bigger fish to fry. My sister says I have become "detached" from the realities of Kenya. Maybe thats what it is. Maybe I have no idea what is actually going on on the ground. Or maybe everyone is so much on the grind that aint nobody got time to be sick. I think there needs to be a healthcare revolution - I dont know the hows I dont know the whos I dont know the whens but I do know it needs to happen and it needs to happen soon.