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A young father on Saturday narrated how his newborn boy who had been at an incubator in one of the hospitals in Central Kenya died following the nationwide nightlong electricity outage experienced Friday night and early Saturday.
He said on social media the hospital staff explained to him that due to the blackout, the oxygen supply to the incubator had been cut. Due to constrained resources, the hospital could not run backup generators for more than a few hours. He said more than three infants died at the hospital.
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