Nila Kadogo, a mother of twins, dangles one of her babies gently and with a sigh of relief as her younger sister plays with her other child while seated at the maternal unit of Nyalenda dispensary in Kisumu.
A few meters from where they sit, a nurse is going through the clinic book of another child brought to the facility earlier to get a dose of the lifesaving Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine.
The vaccine is a critical intervention given to newborns shortly after birth and protects against Tuberculosis disease (TB).
However, despite its significance, health facilities in Kisumu and Vihiga counties ran low on supplies at the end of last year, effectively putting the lives of thousands of newborns at risk.
