How Africa increased its healthy life expectancy

The “Margaret Kenyatta” mother-and-child hospital wing in Nakuru, Kenya is the country’s second-largest maternity ward. It boasts around 250 beds, where it carries out 20 cesarean sections and 30 natural births every day.

The clinic — opened in 2018 by its namesake, Kenya’s first lady and the wife of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta — is one of many examples of measures taken by the government to lower high mortality rates and improve health care.

Previously, for every 100,000 live…