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My baby got kidney injury days after birth

A woman nurses her newborn baby. [File, Standard]

When most people hear of kidney failure, they assume it is a condition for older people who have diabetes and hypertension. Little do they know that kidney failure can affect even a newborn baby.

Josephine Mulwa, a mother of four from Kavilinguni Village in Kangundo Sub-County in Machakos County found herself nursing a newborn baby diagnosed with acute kidney injury a week after delivery.

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