MPs urged to help tame high newborn deaths

Naivasha MP and a Member of KEWOPA Jayne Kihara ,speaking during a high Level reproductive maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition forum held in Nairobi on November 13, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

Health experts are worried that babies continue to die from preventable cases such as infections, complications from premature birth and lack of oxygen.

During a parliamentary sensitisation session yesterday, players in the health sector warned that mortality trends remain unchanged, with about nine in every 1,000 neonates dying in health facilities each quarter, and six in every 1,000 babies aged 0 to 7 days succumbing to preventable causes.