Delivery of paediatric care at the first-referral level in Kenya.

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Published in Lancet on November 02, 2004

Authors

Mike English1, Fabian Esamai, Aggrey Wasunna, Fred Were, Bernhards Ogutu, Annah Wamae, Robert W Snow, Norbert Peshu

Author Affiliations

1: KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, PO Box 230, Kilifi, Kenya. menglish@wtnairobi.mimcom.net

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