Kenya’s only Breast Milk Bank, a Lifeguard for Premature Babies

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Surrounded by incubators, Grace-Ella, four days old, feeds on milk from women who are not her mom at Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity, the only one who offers this vital aid for premature babies in Kenya. In this East African country, about 134,000 babies are born prematurely each year, according to official figures. And the complications resulting from this are the main cause of neonatal mortality. Mothers who give birth long before they are in trou…