Kenya's only breastmilk bank, lifeline for premature babies

Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital is the only facility in Kenya offering the life-giving service of donated breastmilk and one of very few across Africa. [AFP]

Surrounded by incubators, a red tube snaking into her tiny nose, four-day-old Grace-Ella is being fed donated breastmilk at the only facility in Kenya that offers the life-giving service.

The breastmilk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital is one of the very few across sub-Saharan Africa. It is beneficial for premature babies, of which roughly 134,000 are born each year in Kenya.