Pamela Awuor, another new mother who gave birth on January 15 told The Standard that she was discharged after missing out on critical vaccines.
"I was told to come after two weeks. I hope my baby will not miss any other vaccines," she says.
According to Florence Oketch, the county nursing officer, the county ran out of BCG and tetanus vaccines in November and December.
"We have received doses to administer to those who missed. They will last for about two months," she said.
Jael Aran, the nursing officer in charge of vaccinations in Kisumu explained that they are on a mission to trace about 4,000 defaulters.
"We are making comparisons to find out those who missed critical vaccines and trace them to come to the facilities," she explains and admits that late vaccination is dangerous to infants.
In Vihiga where about 19,000 infants are on the vaccination list of 98 health facilities, county officials have initiated a mission to trace at least 7,000 defaulters with the help of PATH and other partners.
This is after the devolved unit restocked 23,000 doses of BCG and Rubella vaccines. The county also has doses of vaccines of BCG, oral polio (OPV), IPV, Pentavalent vaccine, PCV-10, Rotavirus, Malaria, measles, and rubella (MR).
Dubbed the "Big catchup", the program targets to map out all infants that missed vaccines on their dates of appointment for clinical visits.
"We are carrying out daily mobilization to identify the defaulters. We have in place a community health strategy where CHPs help us trace mothers and caregivers in their areas," explains Edith Andere, the Immunization Coordinator.
She encouraged all caregivers and parents with children aged between 0-59 months, and those with girls aged between 10-14 years to visit their nearest health facility and receive the vaccines that they missed during the previous months when there was vaccine stock out.
At Hamisi Sub-County Hospital, the facility's management told The Standard that they have already received all the critical vaccines.
Similarly, the remote Kaptech dispensary, located next to Kakamega forest was also a beehive of activity as mothers and caregivers lined up for vaccines.
Christine Mwavali, a mother of a one-month-old infant narrated to the Standard how her several visits to other facilities in search of vaccines proved futile.
"I have been taking precautions and preventing even some of my family members from interacting with my baby because she missed vaccines and was very vulnerable to diseases," she explains.
In some facilities with a high number of customers, the new stocks they received from the government projected to last a month, are almost being depleted while others are already missing other vaccines.
As part of the efforts to avoid any disruption of exercises, smaller facilities are redistributing their vaccines to those that are low on stocks.
Despite the supplies, anxiety clouds what the future holds after the US government paused its aid work. Health experts fear the move will affect the availability and distribution of vaccines and further worsen the perennial shortages.
The US, through USAID and PEPFAR, has played a critical role in strengthening Kenya's healthcare sector by supporting malaria treatment, distributing vaccines, and training healthcare providers.