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Monica Mueni, a 75-year-old mother of eight, had been using cow dung to cure her children’s umbilical cord after birth for years.
This is just one of the many traditional ways used back in the day to dry the cord stump, but in many cases, it led to neonatal deaths after infections.
Besides cow dung, traditional herbs were also used and within five or seven days, the cord would dry and fall off.
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