A team of surgeons led by Dr Odhiambo Bati during a cleft lip surgery at Dreamland Mission Hospital in Kimilili, Bungoma County. [Patrick Vidija, Standard]

"I was angry and furious. I raised my voice in frustration, asking doctors why they had cut my grandchild. At first, I thought that as they were checking whether his mother was due, they had accidentally cut him."

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