Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has drawn public wrath for donating cooler boxes to Pumwani Maternity Hospital for use as temporary storage facility for dead infants. The donation comes a day after Mr Sonko stormed the hospital and discovered 12 bodies of infants’ stores in boxes and polythene bags.
Following the incident, Sonko has since suspended the hospital’s superintendent Dr Catherine Mutinda, its administrator Zaddock Angahya and Dr James Kamau who was the obstetrician and gynecologist on duty.
“As we plan for immediate improvement of maternal care at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, I have personally donated cooler boxes to be installed in a temporary mortuary at the facility,” Sonko tweeted on Wednesday.
The tweets were accompanied with photos and a short video clip showing the installation of the equipment at the hospital.
Installation of coolers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital for a temporary mortuary. https://t.co/kKAvJPWJ5M
— Mike Sonko (@MikeSonko) September 19, 2018
This was the plan all alone to bring in this coolers, who is the contractor.the drama was all staged.
— abdi adan (@aaden786) September 19, 2018
He has done nothing…. look beyond the scope in this and many other issues he gets himself involved in. His style is one, do nothing for sometime, craft a way of handling something he should have done a long time ago and then storm with cameras to make noise so he looks good. No
— Edgar Ja Bay ® ?? (@jamlekjakababa) September 19, 2018
Kumbe ulikuwa unatafutia msee job? Why didn’t you do the installation beforehand, you should apologise to those professionals that you embarrassed and victimized
— mzalendo (@Karoki3) September 19, 2018
So temporal solution is what we need?
— Calystus Murunga (@CalystusMurung3) September 19, 2018
Governor, are anticipating for reduction of mother and child mortality or the opposite? Why have a mortuary in a place people expects new lives?
— #KenyaYanguNaipenda (@AgapetusWamalwa) September 19, 2018
So you must trend before you work, Mathare Depot field football players can’t access the pitch because of Officer Mutua. Maboys wa mtaa wakifunga barabara ndio utakuja kuwatuliza kisha kiwaja PAP. Ama namna gani ?
— Elijah Kanyi (@ElijahKanyi) September 19, 2018