Some 50 per cent of births at the KNH new born unit are premature. More than 500 babies are born at Kenyatta National Hospital every month. With the overwhelming numbers at numbers at facility the hospital only has 10 ten incubators to care for these babies whose survival rates are very critical. "In such scenarios babies have to share an incubator and the risk of infection is also very high,” Ogongo added. Once they are stable we remove from the incubator and ask the mother to conduct a method called Kangaroo mother care," Ogongo said.

Source: The Star November 17, 2017 18:22 UTC