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Experts call for safer care for newborns and children on World Patient Safety Day

A nurse attending to a pre-term baby in an incubator at Kisumu County Referral Hospital on December. [File, Standard]

Newborns and young children face some of the highest risks in healthcare due to their rapid development, evolving health needs and different disease patterns.

In Kenya, the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey reported a neonatal mortality rate of 21 per 1,000 live births, with newborn deaths now accounting for more than half of all under-five deaths.

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