The Mother Was Not Patient, Mbagathi Hospital Says!

Mbagathi Hospital has been forced to Explain an incident a mother had to Mother Walk 5Km from the facility with a dead baby

 In response, Mbagathi Hospital has finally explained everything about the circumstances that led a mother to walk five Kilometers with her dead baby.

The facility management Maintained that Immaculate Auma’s six-month infant did die while at the facility, the hospital acknowledged that its inefficiencies led to her mother trekking with the dead infant.

Speaking at Mbagathi Hospital on Monday, Nairobi Health Executive Charles Kerich explained that the baby was declared dead by a pediatric clinical officer at 9:45am when the mother arrived with the infant.

Nairobi Health Executive Charles Kerich with other officials during a briefing

He further disclosed that the hospital referred the mother to file a notification and before they could assist her to move the body, the mother left with the baby.

“A nurse at the hospital offered to assist Immaculate to organize for transportation to the police station and onward to the mortuary.

“However, while the hospital was organizing for a vehicle, the mother was discovered to have left with the body of her child,” explained Kerich.

 It had been reported that the mother had taken the child for the treatment of pneumonia at the Mbagathi Hospital On February 13, 2019, but he, unfortunately, passed away.

Auma, who was forced to hold her dead baby for hours, told reporters that she had brought the infant to the facility’s morgue but was yet to be served two hours later.

 However, according to the infant’s grandmother, Liner Atieno, the child died while being treated by a doctor at the facility.

She added that the doctor, who was treating the child before he died, was also reluctant to help admit the body into the morgue.

“He referred us to the nearby Kenyatta police post to collect an OB number,” Atieno indicated.