Kangaroo mother care technology at Mother Baby Unit at PGH boost growth of preterm babies

Susan Akinyi, 26, holds her baby, kangaroo style, at the newly build Margaret Kenyatta Mother Baby wing, at Nakuru Level Five hospital. [Mercy Kahenda/Standard]

When Susan Akinyi, 26, from Heshima estate in Nakuru gave birth to her second child, she was worried and confused. The baby was too tiny, with low birth weight of only 900 grammes.

It was hard for the mother to cuddle her baby, but a nurse at the newly- established Margaret Kenyatta Mother Baby Wing took the baby to an incubator for observation and monitoring.