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Reconstructive surgeries give children new smiles

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Mothers hold their babies at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

When Rehema Bakari gave birth to her second baby at a health facility in Mtopanga, Kisauni, she did not expect her baby to be ‘different’. However, as soon as she was handed her newborn baby by the hospital nurse, Ms Bakari noticed something unusual.

“I noticed she had a deformity on her mouth. This broke my heart and for the first few weeks after giving birth, I cried a lot,” she said.

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