Setting
The research was conducted at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, a Ministry
of Health primary care facility in Nairobi County. With an average of
one hundred and twenty deliveries per day, it is Kenya’s largest
specialized referral hospital dedicated to maternity and newborn care.
The facility mostly serves women
from Nairobi and the surrounding counties who are low and middle-income
earners.
The first HMB in Eastern Africa was established at this hospital as a
pilot project to support and promote breastfeeding among nursing mothers
while at the same time facilitating the supply of safe DHM to at-risk
newborns without access to mother’s milk.