Kenya: Why a Newborn is More Likely to Die in Nairobi Than in Rural Areas

The relationship between health resources and neonatal deaths in East Africa's urban centres compared with rural areas had left researchers baffled.

A report by the Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust shows that Kenya's capital Nairobi, which holds a tenth of the country's health resources -- healthcare workers and facilities -- records one of the country's highest numbers of deaths among newborns.

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