Final journey for Kenya’s youngest and second-longest serving ICU child patient

Milan in his hospital bed at KNH, and his mother. The family visited their son for the three years he was admitted to the hospital. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD

It was a burial of a kind. At his tender age, he brought together hundreds of people to the little-known Mutomo village in Gatundu to celebrate Kenya’s youngest and second-longest serving ICU child patient; four-year-old Milan Mburu.

Medics at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi say his resilience kept him alive three years and two months on bed number 20 at the Critical Care Unit.