As part of universal health coverage, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched free maternity and newborn care in the city of Kinshasa since Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

The ultimate goal of the Universal Health Coverage (USC) program is to ensure that mothers no longer lose their lives giving birth. According to the President of the Republic, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, “universal health coverage (CSU) is not an option but a duty”. To this end, he has engaged with the government in improving the living and working conditions of health providers for the success of universal health coverage in the country. Some poor women from Kinshasa and other parts of the DRC interviewed on this subject are satisfied with this opportunity offered by the Head of State to give birth in good