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Abandoned baby yearns for mother’s love from hospital

By By Lonah Kibet | Jul. 24, 2012
Baby Baraka being cuddled by a nurse [Photo:Standard]

By Lonah  Kibet

Five-month-old Baraka lives in solitude at the Kenyatta National Hospital. He rarely gets visitors and nurses, busy at work, only get to him when it is absolutely necessary.

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