Kenya: Report Blames Lack of Equipment, Qualified Staff for Infant Deaths

16 February 2020

A distraught health worker in a sub-county hospital in Siaya County narrated to a colleague an incident where he requested for an ambulance from the county referral hospital for a child he had operated on and the matter had deteriorated. When the ambulance came, it did not have oxygen, the very thing that the baby needed to survive until it reached the more equipped Level 5 hospital. Expectedly and tragically, the baby died minutes later.

These are common stories among gagged healthcare workers.

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