By ELIZABETH MERABMore by this AuthorThe Kenyatta National Hospital has been asked to find a way of accommodating new mothers closer to their babies. Board chairman Mark Bor yesterday said that after touring the labour ward, maternity wing and the newborn unit, his team had made recommendations to the management to explore if breastfeeding mothers could be moved closer to the unit. Infants in the newborn unit are usually separated from their mothers for health reasons, such as offering intensive care support to infants who are very sick. BREASTFEEDRight below the newborn unit should be the labour ward, while the maternity wing where new mothers are transferred to from the labour ward, should be adjacent to the newborn unit for easy access to the baby whenever a mother needs to breastfeed. “We endorse actions by the hospital management to commence internal investigations into the allegations,” said Mr Bor.

Source: Daily Nation January 22, 2018 19:52 UTC