Navigating Through a Struggling Health System; the Staggering Experience of a Struggling Family

Born at 28 weeks of gestation and weighing 800g birth, her father preferred a public health facility where the cost neonatal intensive care is less prohibitive. At same time, mother suffered wound dehiscence was re-admitted for prolonged period. Incidentally, resident doctors in hospitals were three into nationwide industrial action time. With no one available to help out with household chores, had combine two children, logistics hospitals. The kids home soon dropped school when financial burden became unbearable. Even though family’s long onerous journey eventually ended, its impact large ‘wound’ that may take while heal.