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Breast milk in containers after harvesting from mothers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]
The newborn unit at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi is bustling, though the adjacent human milk bank sees less activity.
Despite this, the bank has saved hundreds of preterm infants and babies without breastfeeding mothers due to illness, birth complications, or maternal death, in its four-year existence.
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