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Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low.
In Turkana, only Ng'adakarin BAMOCHA model, based on migratory routes of the Turkana pastoralists and container clinics was adopted in to improve access to maternal and child health services by the nomads. A cross-sectional study design was used to establish the effectiveness of Ng'adakarin BAMOCHA model on accessibility and uptake of ante-natal care and delivery services. A total of households and households were interviewed for pre-intervention and post-intervention respectively.
The study compared the pre-intervention and post-intervention findings. Structured questionnaires and focus group discussion were used for data collection. There was no improvement in the fourth ante-natal care visits between pre-intervention and post-intervention groups at TBA assisted deliveries increased from 7. There was significant reduction in home deliveries from The Ng'adakarin Bamocha model had a positive effect on the improving maternal health care among the nomadic pastoralist community in Turkana.
Access to health is one of the key human rights. This is enshrined in various international treaties and agreements such as Millennium development goals. In Kenya, health was identified as key pillar in developing the nation in vision and further enshrined in Kenya health policy - The key elements of rights to health are the accessibility of services, availability of health services, acceptability of health services and quality of health care WHO, [ 1 ].
