Kenyatta National Hospital has called for the arrest of one city woman who came out soughting for help online for negligence which led to then death of her ailing mother.
The woman who goes by the name Karen Gacheru went live on Kilimani Mums and Dads Facebook group explaining how a doctor at KNH ignored her mother’s critical condition.
She narrated how her mother was knocked down by a motorbike sustaining a head injury and she took her to KNH’s emergency unit.
Ms Gacheru explained how her mother stayed at the unit for hours with no help from doctors who were telling her to take the mother to a private hospital.
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According to Ms. Gacheru, “I was later called and told my mother passed away then when I questioned why they neglected her they called a counsellor. I made a mistake of telling the counsellor I had recorded videos of a doctor who told me there was nothing she could do for my mum. Minutes later police came after me asking me to delete the videos I had taken. They searched me but luckily I did not have my phone so I escaped and came to record this video.”
She accused the nurses of denying her the much needed health services refusing to listen to her concerns when her mother laid helpless with no oxygen yet she could not breathe.
She further added saying that, “I asked the doctors why my mum was being take to Ward 5B yet they had recommended an ICU and the response they gave was that I should seek services at a private facility. A nurse at the ward complained that my mother was too critical to stay at the ward but when she called the people at the emergency unit she complied and put our mother in a room. Why would a whole national referral hospital tell a poor Kenyan to seek help at a private facility?”
Ms Gacheru said she was fearing for her life as strangers have been approaching her asking her not to release the videos she recorded and not to expose the doctor whom she accused of neglecting her mother.