According to Ms Wangari, the little one was in perfect health at the time of birth. She instead blamed the mothers saying 35 of them were pre-term babies and stood little chance of surviving. INFECTION“In the two months of December 2018 and January 2019, Kiambu Hospital conducted 1,703 deliveries. We had a total of 60 neonatal deaths out of which 35 were pre-term babies weighing less than 1.5 kilograms,” she noted. The survival rate for severe pre-term babies is very low worldwide,” she argued.

Source: Daily Nation February 16, 2019 07:52 UTC