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Dr. Daniel Tamirat Cherkos (right) explains the newborn's keyhole surgery to Hillary Bett, father of Baby Carline Bett, at AGC Tenwek Hospital in Bomet County.
A six-day-old baby is home and feeding normally after surgeons at AGC Tenwek Hospital repaired a rare defect in her food pipe using keyhole surgery, a procedure the hospital called a first for Kenya.
The Africa Gospel Church (AGC) Tenwek Hospital said the thoracoscopic surgery repaired oesophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula, a congenital condition in which the oesophagus does not connect to the stomach, making feeding impossible.
The operation was performed on Baby Carline Bett, born June 4, 2026, to Violah Bett and Hillary Bett of Manyoror in Kericho County.
