Malaria's relentless toll on children strains Kisumu's overwhelmed hospitals

Malaria's relentless toll on children strains Kisumu's overwhelmed hospitals

Steven Fox
Steven Fox•
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Microscopic view of a blood smear with a central purple blood cell surrounded by other blood cells and the word "plasmodium" at the bottom.

Malaria's relentless toll on children strains Kisumu's overwhelmed 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