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When oxygen causes blindness in newborns

Millicent Atieno attends to her newborn at Migori County Referral hospital [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Weighing only 800g at birth, baby Amanda’s health condition left her mother anxious, particularly about her survival chances. The girl born at 29 weeks looked weak and in distress. She was shortly moved to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

Jane Nyokabi, her mother, had developed high blood pressure, speeding up the delivery of her third-born.

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