Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has suspended top officials at Pumwani Maternity Hospital including the entire board after bodies of 12 dead infants were found hidden in a room.
Those sent home include the facility’s Superintendent Catherine Mutinda, Administrators Zadock Angahya and George Nyadimo and obstetrician gynecologist James Kamau.
The dead bodies were discovered after an impromptu visit by the Governor to the hospital following a tip-off by some patients that the hospital had switched off machines leading to death of several infants.
The corpses were wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed in three carton boxes inside a store, raising further questions on why they had not been transferred to a morgue.
The management was at pain to explain how the bodies ended up in the boxes as opposed to being taken to a mortuary. Mothers said that staff switched off the power in the facility’s new-born unit.
“Stern action will be taken against anyone found to be sabotaging the good services offered to our mothers and sisters who come to deliver in this facility,” he warned.
Sonko arrived at the hospital on a boda boda to avoid being noticed and was informed by one of the hospital officials that only one baby had died at the facility in the past 24 hours.
However, after searching the place, 12 bodies were discovered in separate polythene bags – one containing six bodies, another with five and the last with one body.
“All those responsible for this negligence will face full force of the law. I’m not going to allow this to happen to our mothers, they must take responsibility for the deaths,” said Sonko after discovery of the bodies.
Nairobi county has a women…
Nairobi county has a women representative who should be very well intune with plight of women and especially mothers, infant and children welfare. Where has she been in all this? She should be right there in the thick of it, supporting and working with Sonko to implement school milk program too. You only see this Passaris woman when ODM is demonstrating carrying twigs etc. Since that is no longer happening and the drama is over then she has gone back to doing what she does best which is nothing. If this is the work Sonko is going to do while operating from his Hill top Mauua house then let it be.
Good job Sonko. Those staff…
Good job Sonko. Those staff responsible for that mess should be treated as murderers and be put on death row in Kamiti
Kenyan Doctors how many…
Kenyan Doctors how many times do I have to tell you to STOP WORKING in Kenya Public hospitals!!!!
These Hospitals lack beds, medication, understaffed and underfunded.Money is being stolen by Mailu and Afya House is just stealing.
Uhuru Kenyatta disabled sisters are also stealing vaccination money donated by donors.
beyond Zero is a Ponzi scheme created to defraud well wishers who want to donate to save babies.It is ran by Margret Kenyatta.
Kenyan DOCTORS STOP WORKING IN KENYA PUBLIC Hospitals.Let the Cuban Doctors work there.
This is crazy. More like a…
This is crazy. More like a horror movie. The emotional turmoil the families are going through is only exacerbated by these revelations. I new things were bad at pumwani but this bad. Apart from just the ethical gross misconduct medically it puts all the other people in the hospital at risk; the other patients, newborns and even the staff at risk. As a person who grew up around the area I just feel sorry for the mothers and sisters who have to go to this hospital because they have no choice. The hardships and suffering they endure during there time there only to face this at the end is just sad. Surely something has to be done, this has to take priority.