Government urgently needs to ramp up disability awareness

I watched with shock a video clip of a mother who abandoned her newborn baby in a hospital in Naivasha because the child had a disability. The mother refused to breastfeed the newborn and her family also said that the baby was cursed. This was not an isolated happening. Recently, a mother abandoned her newborn baby with a cleft lip at Mbagathi Hospital while in Ngong, a baby with a deformed foot was abandoned in a thicket.