Malaria's unrelenting grip on Kisumu's children strains hospitals

Malaria's unrelenting grip on Kisumu's children strains hospitals

Janet Carey
Janet Carey
1 Min.
Microscopic view of a blood smear with a central purple blood cell surrounded by a few others, with the word "plasmodium" visible at the bottom.

Malaria's unrelenting grip on Kisumu's children strains hospitals

For decades, paediatric wards across Kisumu's public hospitals have carried a familiar weight, feverish children, anxious mothers and the relentless urgency associated with malaria, a disease that has shaped childhood illness along the Lake Victoria region for generations.

Fredrick Gogo, A lab manager at Lumumba Sub-County Hospital, Kisumu, operating a microscope during diagnosis of Malaria in the facility