kenya: Underweight Babies in 'Grave Danger' in Nairobi Hospitals

A new study on child mortality in Kenya says that newly-born underweight babies admitted to the country's leading public hospital are at a higher risk of dying within the first month than Nigerian children were more than 25 years ago. According to the study, which is another damning indictment of the poor standards of healthcare at Kenyan public hospitals, low birthweight babies admitted to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) - the country's biggest and most advanced hospital - are also more likely to die than those admitted to the institution more than a quarter of a century ago.