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Caroline Kirui, a nurse at the Uasin Gishu County Hospital, cleans the eyes of the newborns and trains mothers how to do it. Checking their eyes is good for early diagnosis of retinoblastoma - cancer of the eye - whose signs include glittery pupils and squinted look.
Eye cancer is called retinoblastoma and at the clinics, mothers are also trained to look for any swelling, reddening, or protruding sockets and have their children referred for examination and treatment.
"Cancer of the eye is ignored, yet it causes blindness and death in children," says Kirui.
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