TO THE MEMORY OF LUCY WAMBUGU, A STAFF OF THE NWH WHO DIED GIVING BIRTH AT THE NWH.

I have just received this in my mail box and I can't stop the tears from running down my eyes! If anyone out there says that am acting out of emotions, then am not embarrased about the same. It was not God's will for Lucy to die, this is blatant negligence! The Nairobi Women's Hospital is planning to open a branch in Nakuru...how many women are they going to butcher before something is done????? Who shall listen to our pleas????

"I write on behalf of my late friend, Lucy Muringi Wambugu who until 30th September was a casualty nurse in NWH.

Lucy was 32 years old and was pregnant with her 1st child and had what all of us thought was an uneventful pregnancy till 30th September 2012. On that fateful day,  she checked herself into the facility after informing her friends that nikirudi tutakuwa wawili. What happened in the 27 hrs till 1st Oct 3.40 pm can only be conjectured but the bottom line is that we buried Lucy and her baby yesteday in her fathers farm in Ol Kalau.

Apparently she was made to labour for 24 hours and at one time she called someone and informed them that she was in a very tight spot and requested for prayers. I dont know at what point they decided to CS her but the attending doctor was all this time in the NWH (Adams) and came in 15 minutes into the operation...So pray, who was doing the operation???? The fate of the baby was even more mysterious...one of the nurses blurted out that the baby had cried and then total silence.

Preliminary PM results say she was anaemic!!!! Can you believe this??? the family mambers had been told that she had been transfused with half a pint of blood (half a pint????) and yet it was not entered in the discharge sheet.

The picture of Lucy with her baby in the same coffin will haunt me forever, bearing in mind that Lucy has helped me with my medical challenges for the last 1 year...outside NWH of course!!!!! The parents are of course devastated and they were just staring at the coffin in disbelief.

I want to restate what the priest who buried her told NWH... If it the will of God that Lucy should have died, its ok, we accept and God is going to heal us. But if it was due to negligence, somebody will pay, and not in the too distant future. It galled me to listen to message from the CEO being read in American English, our warning to staffers of the facility is that they are not safe just because they work there. If it looks rotten, smells rotten, then it is ROTTEN!! Get out before it is too late otherwise it will be a blight on your CV.

I hope I will not get threatening calls and emails because of this highlight, but I am feeling injured..."

REST IN PEACE LUCY, YOURS WAS CUT TOO SHORT TOO SOON!!!!

IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE DOCTORS (#peremendemovement)

I have only been posting stories of incidences taking place at the Nairobi Women's Hospital. Last week as I was thinking about the whole militaring and sensibilisation that we have been doing in social media, come the next morning, I receive messages in my inbox as below;

"One of the nurses at the NWH Hurlinghum died the day before yesterday in theater while undergoing a c/s... too sad, too bad. don't show / tell my identity."

"Hi sue, another shocking news yesterday Nwh hurligham lost their staff as she was giving birth, i dnt think nw they can defend themselves,,,,,,,,,,,,,,GOD HAVE MERCY"

"the nurse who passed on on monday is my friend lucy wambugu and she was my neighbour in kikuyu. the baby died too."

"Imagine they never saved the child na reason heart attack for child and mum too bad"

"it is with great sorrow that i am posting this about nairobi women's hospital. a good friend of ours, lucy wambugu and very unfortunately an employee of the same institution, passed on in the theatre during delivery. the result was lack of oxygen that cost the baby's life too. as we are talking, the post moterm is underway. i am saddened by their lack of proffessionalism and sensitivity to the sanctity of human life. this must come to an end and people advised to seek medical services elsewhere. these guys have a lot of underqualified staff who are detrimental to the institution's reputation. i shall keep you updated as the story unfolds."

So in my mind I go like, what if our doctors were all well paid and they continued contributing their services at the public hospitals, which should be fully equipped to meet the patients' needs? People will not need to go to these private and ill-equipped hospitals, and lives will be saved!

This morning, a lady posts this in our women's group in facebook; 

"Am a sad mama cuz my neighbour lost her son because of negligence and arrogance. she went into labour on 1st this week and was rushed to a nearby clinic but the doc read owner did not want to admit her just because she cldnt pay 3k so she was taken to another clinic but the doc confirmed that she had dilated 8cm and any time she cld deliver. she was quickly taken to another clinic and delivered a bouncing baby boy. later that night at around 9 pm, the baby started crying and mucus like stuff were coming off his nose and she called the nurses to check on him but they told her that its normal and she should stop breastfeeding the baby cuz its also contributing to him crying and being a first time mum she din know nothing and so she tried to sooth the baby but the little baby wont stop crying. The baby cried till 11.30pm and at 12 midnight the little boy died. Now she din know the baby was dead so she thought he might have fallen asleep cuz of the crying and he held the little boy in her arms so that he wont wake up. When the nurses came they checked the baby and just like that they told her ''Mama huyu mtoto wako alienda kitambo'' talk of breaking sad news. The nurse walked away leaving her wid the dead boy in her arms not even caring to take him away from her and when the mum asked what she will do with the baby, the nurses told her '' lala na yeye hapo''....Mums could you imagine this neighbour of mine held the baby till morning cuz she din know what to do with the baby since all nurses went to sleep. In the morning the cleaner comes and tears rolled his cheeks to watch a woman hold her dead boy since 12midnight and the nurses dont even care. she is telling us it was such a long night just holding the boy and he was no more. I felt for her returning home with no baby and such an experience...Please mamas say a prayer for her and may her little bundle of joy RIP."

How worse can it get??

WHY YOU SHOULD ALL AVOID THE NAIROBI WOMEN’S HOSPITAL (PART 11)

I owe it upon all the victims of the Nairobi Women’s Hospital who sent me their stories to publish the same.

So far, nothing positive has come out of our campaigns, I had a few journalists contact me and I tried putting them in touch with the victims, I hope they are looking into the matter.

Some victims were totally adamant to bring out their stories but the situation is quiet understandable because maybe they belong to the lot who came to a mutual agreement with the management of the hospital, as one of the victims wrote and told me that she is barred from disclosing the terms of her situation any further after a settlement was made. Could this be the strategy Dr. Sam Nthenya uses when he says that he handles all the cases separately and individually? What a pity!

Today I post stories from a couple of victims, like I always say, for as long as one went through a terrible moment at the hospital, it can never be stale news!

1. Thanks alot for this...I happened to take my girlfriend there for delivery....It was a normal delivery, which i dint expect to go over 50,000,but for two days they charged me 77k..after complaining and following up it came to 60,000.

It is a cartel to eat money and even the CEO knows...it starts with the Cashier to the doctors, especially if you have an insurance cover,they will take you for C/S...they are so nasty.

Thank you for your email which has highlighted many pertinent issues affecting women and kenyans at large.

2. I am a victim of Nairobi Women’s Hospital and mine was ugly as it was my first child and knew nothing about children and the whole process.I have come to learn that no one can ever prepare you. I was admitted under the short martenity package at the hospital on the 27th of May 2007 to deliver my 1st baby. I was 25 years old then. a young excited girl. I attended 5 anti natal clinics at the facility and even went for a scan as was advised by the doctors. my due date was meant to be 21st of May 2007 and since it was my 1st pregnancy I decided to go for induction of labour. I packed my stuff and headed to hospital on the fateful night. i saw the doctor who allowed me to be induced into labour. I was admitted and the normal procedures followed. to cut the long story short ,my labour did not advance up to the 29th of May . That is when the real labour started. I was in a drip and in so much pain , I asked to see a doctor and the nurses just kept disappearing. finally they came and told me that the doctor was not available.
   
   A midwife came to check me, i was not dilated, so i was taken to the delivery room with a drip(the pain is out of this world) still going through and at one point was left alone with a friend of mine at the delivery room. The experience was not horrifying but scarey. I waited in the delivery room till a doctor came and had to be taken to theatre. that is not the end. I had an emergency caesarean  section and the baby was born with severe birth asphyxia . The child had to be transferred to Agakhan University Hospital ,he stayed in the i.c.u for 21 days and the baby was discharged. any way after leaving the child was referred to an occupational therapist who diagnosed the baby with cerebral palsy. I am now raising a child with cerebral palsy .
   
   That is my story.

3. Hi Suzane,
   Now, here is why I would join your course. Back in 2007, my sister used to go for clinics at Acacia. The gynae there had rights atr NWH. One fine morning as she neared her EDD, she
   goes for routine check up and is told the placenta has gone round the baby's neck. It was not a problem until a nurse there sarcastically asked 'na wewe ulidanganywa aje ukakuja CS?' we thought she was just being arrogant  and we hated her for those remarks. 2 years later, my siz was there again! This time, she opted for Aga Khan. She was very determined to have a vaginal delivery. But doctors at Aga Khan asked her how come she had been operated, they discouraged her against a normal delivery because the labour would rapture the earlier stitches. What the nurse at NWH had asked now got us thinking and we understood she may have had a point. A lady doctor interviewed my sister and asked; what prompted your first operation? Mi siz said, 'the placenta had gone round the baby's neck. How did the doctor know, did he do a scan on you? No, my sister answered. And so we learned that something was veeeeeeery wrong.

4. Hello,

My wife recently delivered our son at NWH Rongai branch. We chose this hospital due to the proximity of our residence but what we experienced there surely leaves a lot to be desired. First of all the prenatal visits were a nightmare; we used to spend not less than 5 hours each visit before we could see a doctor and mark you it is not because the hospital is busy, the staff are just slow, incompetent and minding their own business instead of attending to patients. Then came the day of the delivery, first a Dr Orina told me that the birth would be normal and that we should just give her time. Then after about 2 hrs they suggested that labor should be induced so she was put on the drip.   That was at around 8 pm. The nurses would check on her after every 2 hrs and inform her that she was doing fine and she was going to deliver normally. Then at around 4 am they decided that it was time so they took her to the delivery room and tried to force her to deliver normally even after cutting her vagina to no avail. That is when they decide that she was too small and that her hips could not allow her to deliver normally something they could have known all along if they were even 1 % competent. So they went ahead and did the CS and thank God the baby was fine. But now when it came to the time of being discharged, I was given the invoice and charges that were there were out of this world. It was alleged that she was attended to by 3 different surgeons namely Dr. Orina, Dr May Matilu, Dr. Peter Mutie with each surgeon charging a separate amount. I asked what is so difficult with a CS that it needed 3 different surgeons but I did not get any meaningful answer. I came to realise later that this was a ploy to make money out of unsuspecting clients.  Also the drugs, materials and visits by the doctor and nurses during the 3 days that my wife was admitted were inflated to the roof but there is nothing I could do about it. Then when she was discharged Dr. Orina prescribed a certain drug to control her blood pressure, everytime she took this drug she would get severe headaches and feel very dizzy to the point of fainting. I suspected something wrong and took her to a different doctor, when I showed the new doctor the prescription given by Dr. Orina he was amazed and very angry as it turned out that Orina had prescribed a dose twice as much as she should be taking and if she would have gone on to finish the dose it would have had adverse effects. This is very alarming and saddening that a "professional" who is entrusted with people's lives can be so incompetent. 

There are also allegations that nurses on duty at night usually sleep in the patients' beds but this I cannot substantiate since I have never been admitted.

I just hope that info this will put out what is happening inside that hospital and it will help my fellow Kenyans in making decisions. 

After sending out the complaints to the Kenya Medical and Practitioners Board, they sent out a form to be filled, requiring a payment of Kshs. 2,000/=, I didn’t understand how they wanted us to go about the matter, I totally did not understand the basis of that form.

My advice to you all, please be informed before-hand about what awaits you during delivery, talk to your mothers, your grandmothers to hear how they went about delivering up to 14kids without any hassle. Today, delivering has become like a silent massacre and no one is bold enough to bring it up. The obituaries on our local newspapers speak for themselves, what of those who never get to publish their messages? Let’s help save womanhood from perishing under negligent hands like those of the staff of the Nairobi Women’s Hospital.

COMPLAINS FROM VICTIMS OF THE NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL (PART 10)

We have tried our level best to bring into limelight complains that we have been receiving from former patients turned victims of the Nairobi Women's Hospital. Despite it all, it came to our notice in facebook via several prominent bloggers and journalists who are being used by the hospital as advertising agents that a new branch has just been opened in Eastleigh. Our question being, what becomes of all these victims? Who shall hear out their pleas if at all the Medical Board that is supposed to look into these matters can afford to complicate the matter further by giving out a form that demands for Kshs.2,000/= to present a case? The victims have already been ripped off by the hospital, and the board still wants to rip them off some more! Assuming we submit at least 100 victims and each is asked to fill the form and pay Kshs. 2,000/= that amounts to a total of Kshs.200,000/=, where is the logic? What is their purpose then?

To avoid any further bla bla, lemmi post for you today’s story of a young lady who suffered terribly at the hands of the rude staff of the NWH;

I got pregnant in 2010 and since NWH was so close to my house i chose to take it as the hospital for my delivery and all the antenatal clinic. I went and inquired about their rates and the receptionist there, Miss Leah Mululu was explaining to me all and she advised me to choose a maternity package that included antenatal visits and delivery. Since it was my first pregnancy me and my partner wanted to make it special so we asked at NWH if they have private rooms and Leah assured me that its possible but I would be on the waiting list and come delivery date it will be ready for me!

The ante natal clinics were expensive cos mostly when i went there they mostly gave me medicine that I had to pay since they were not in the maternity package but I did not worry cos I thought it was all for the good of my baby. I wanted a personal doctor but I was told that for that I would have to pay extra since the docs worked in shift......so with all the shift working I saw a different doctor each time and they forgot to give me a tetanus shot, am the one who asked them and kept reminding them. I wish that would have been a wake up call for me but I still continued going to their clinics.

I started bleeding on the night of 15th March, 2010 so my husband rushed me to  NWH, when we arrived there it was so quiet and we started joking that maybe the place was shut down but on looking further we saw the nurses all sleeping by the nurse station. We woke them up and they were a pissed about it, i was in a bit pain and instead of them offering me a seat they first asked to see my patient card to ensure I had fully paid for my maternity package, then they sent my husband to the administration office to pick my file as they just sat there.

I was then admitted in the maternity ward and after an hour a guy in civilian clothes with no name tag came and rudely asked to check if i had dilated, he said he was the doctor. After the doctor left I was left alone with my husband and he was practically the one doing all for me, the nurse was sleeping next to my bed on her desk. My contractions got more and on 16th at around 9am that is when another doctor came to check on me. He explained that he will rapture my uterus and that would help speed the contractions. Since that doctor did that i was in more pain, my husband was next to me, asking anything from a nurse took ages to have it done. After hours of pain and no nurse bothering to assist one nurse said they could  give me medication to ease the pain and we agreed. Going for that medicine took almost an hour and she came back with no medicine and no apology. I was in so much pain and i even  did not have the energy to complain, its my husband who had to go to the pharmacy and demand for that. The whole day i was in pain so at around 6pm a nurse who was very rude came to check my baby’s heart beat and she said it was low. We asked her what was wrong but she could not explain so she called a doctor who said i have to undergo an emergency CS. After being in pain for more than15hours they now decided to have a CS done, I agreed for the sake of my baby!

So the doctor said they have to prepare the Operation room for me. My husband wanted to come to the  Operation Room(OR) with me but the doctor said that its not allowed,I was really angry about it cos I  wanted him to welcome our baby in the world. The doctor said that he needs a consent from another doctor who was not in so that they can allow my husband to the OR. This made me so upset but i was  in so much pain and i could not even talk, my husband insisted that he wants to come in the OR but they just took him round and round, it took them around an hour to prepare the room for me and i was wheeled in,they told my hubby to wait a bit by the door so they could get me ready then he comes in but they lied. They shut him out of the OR and up to now i do not know why they did that!

My baby was born well after all the stress from an uncorporative and rude staff, i was taken back to the ward. My husband first saw our baby at least one and a half hour after she was born, no one was bothering to tell him what was happening. She was a hungry little girl and she was wailing and it took the intervention of my sister to have the nurses feed her, they were busy talking at the nurse station........later at around 10pm I saw my baby then the nurse took her to the nursery so i could sleep.

The next day at around 8am a nurse came and woke me up saying i have to walk to the showers and  take a  shower, I tried telling her i had a CS the previous night but she was rude, she told me that am supposed to walk as part of exercise and take a shower. I tried to get off the bed and the pain, but i could not manage to even take a step, i was dizzy and weak! Later my baby was brought to me and she had a bump on her head, seeing that we asked what happened but no one was telling us what happened! She also had an intravenous tube on her hand so we asked what was going on but the nurse said the doctor had instructed it done. So we waited for the pediatrician to come and explain all to us, we showed her the bump and she said the baby may have been dropped but no nurse was owning up and about the tube she said that my baby had an infection so they were giving her medication something they had not told me! They had also given my baby antibiotics without telling me why, its much later that i saw a nurse trying to give her another dose.

That whole day was another agonizing day so we decided with my husband its better i just go back home! The services at the hospital were dismaying, the nurses were rude and very unprofessional, it was worse staying there and especially with the CS. Getting a nurse took ages when you ring the bell and even when they came over they did not know what to do, since they were still giving me painkillers a nully nurse came over and inserted the tablet without any oil,i guess she did that intentionally cos i had been asking her several times when she will give me my painkillers as i was in pain,she was either not apologetic for that incident, then later another nurse came and asked me if my baby had already gotten the Tuberculosis shot! I was shocked cos how could the nurses not know what medication a patient needs? Its like they did not have any records so that is when I made up my mind to leave the hospital!

In the same ward i was in there was a mum who had a baby with a cleft lip and another mother got a healthy baby but the nurses put her in the incubator cos they assumed she looked jaundiced! The baby with a cleft lip died after some days due to the neglect of the staff. The next day i went to shower but the bathroom was unwanting, i showered in cold water cos apparently they shut down the warm water at 9am so when you are late you have to use cold water! When my husband came later to check on us we told the nurse that i would like to be discharged,she said we have to talk to the head nurse and clear the bill before that. So we waited for the head nurse,my husband went to collect the bill which was KSh.140,000! This was shocking cos I had paid for a maternity package,in the bill they were charging us for the gloves used on me and they even charged us for a wellness baby package(diapers and baby cream) that they give to mothers there! My husband asked the Finance Officer to explain the charges on the bill but he also could not elaborate what was billed! We told him that I wanted to be discharged and i needed a go ahead from him but he was just taking us round and round, we also spoke to the head nurse but she was adamant! I really do not know why they did not want to discharge me yet i was not happy with their services, we were getting upset about how they were ignoring us so we decided to just leave and no one was helping us in any way, the head nurse who was rude swore that i will not leave the hospital till i clear my bill yet on the bill its written that you have to pay it within 3days after its sent to you when you are discharged! She said that if we leave then my baby will stay behind till i clear the bill! That really angered us so we decided enough is enough, I packed all my stuff and my husband carried my baby ready for us to leave! It was a tussle cos they even called the security guy at the gate who tried to stop us from leaving and in that he hit me on the belly, they were all shouting and it was such a big scene so my husband left his Identity Card as a surety! Since all that he just insisted to speak to the CEO so that he could have it all explained!

I left the hospital with no painkillers so its a friend who is a midwife that advised me on the medication to take and since i had lost so much blood she gave me iron supplements. After some days at home we got a call from the hospital that that they would like to speak to us but we refused and insisted on speaking to the CEO since all the junior staff had been a disappointment! We managed to get to see the CEO, Dr Thenya and explained to him all that happened, he apologized to me on behalf of his staff and said that he will look in to that matter. That was around end of March,2010! Since that experience i did not want anything to do with NWH and i forgave them hoping no other mother goes through the same experience that i underwent! Its sad that they slap someone with the doctored bill that covers what you did not even use, the bathrooms there are totally broken and water leaking, the nursery for the newborn babies is in a sorry state with open electrical wires and dirt laying around, the beds in the wards are old and broken and next to my bed there was pieces of broken ampoules! The CEO later asked my husband to talk to his staff about professionalism and he promised to take action but its sad that the same issues still happen there till now! I always thank God that me and my baby made it alive out of NWH ! I guess the apology was just Public Relation since more grisly stuff happens there to date where babies and mothers die!

When a woman suffers under an establishment that is supposed to take care of her, then it can never be stale news! I am really bitter that instead of the hospital improving its services within the existing establishments, it still has the audacity of continuing with expansion…and I promise you, this is not going to do any good to our woman folk!

THE FIRST THEORY ON INFANT MORTALITY UPRISE AT THE NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

For those who want to share out the Nairobi Women's Hospital sagas, this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VrihoKjgEl2rnILKJHTDWUBYPBzeXbyygoX8wggdjas/edit contains purely the victims' stories minus my usual two cents comments...actu

ally one cent after tax.

Read, understand, digest, then if you feel they are legit, share them out to help save a life. The Nairobi Women's Hospital has turned into the local butchery. The statistics of infant and maternal deaths are staggering to the mind! They refuse to give us valid reasons, then we shall try dig them out.

As for the infant's deaths, there could be only one theory, maybe the hospital is in collaboration with other international hospitals that carries out stem cell research which is usually very effective if carried out either on a foetus or a newly born. A simple search on what stem cell research entails will open up your eyes into a secretive world of acts abolished in developed countries but not at all condemned in developing countries. Hence, the doctors abroard lias with local doctors to provide them with grounds to carry out their illegal research. This is just one theory that might explain the uprise on infant mortality at the Nairobi Women's Hospital. As I continue to seek more answers, it is up to you to inform your entourage. ♥

NWH NAWAMULIKA; THE SEQUEL by Alex Red

Ding! Ding! Ding! round two dedication,
Risto ina invovle medications, ill-intentions and corruption
Kuna Dem mtaani ali repiwa na ma chokoraa
miaka kumi na mbili ashavunjwa ubikraa
amepelekwa NWH, akapimwa kila kitu
report ikarudi negative page one-to-two
excess bleeding aka have ku get blood IV
kumbe ni contaminated akaget infection-HIV
Hosi waka deny any responsibility
nonesense ka hii mtu anafaa kulala kamiti
Commitee waka denounce allegations as "slanderous"
Hosi top-to-down operated by murderers,
hii ni ugonjwaa and it just got cancerous
Nurse, Doki hadi CEO wako ndani ya system
Skiza sistren! kila mtu infected from the leaves down to the stem
Beyond any cure, Nothing's pure
Too widespread to be healed
Too many names sealed
Too many games concealed
Too many secrets to be revealed
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Kuna pimbi flani anaitwa Itumbi
Anapang'ang'a mingi nikaa kichwa imejaa uji ya wimbi
Lalisha utambi, huwezani na hii kambi
Tunajua CEO ashakuona yako ganji
Nthenya hana pupa juu ana mtoi ashai genya
Ye alishaa katinga, mkwanja mfukoni ilishaa penya
Roundii mwenda tu campain na Martha Karua
chini ya pua yako watoi na mamatha wanateseka vi poor
Last month matha flani ame die
nje ya parking lot hosi ndani ya ndae
juu kadi yake ya insurance ili expire
hamna haya, mambo gani haya?
mna hire watchmen kufukuza wagonjwa
TABIA MBAYA
huyo matha alikua six weeks pregnant
and raising a one year old infant
two kids orphaned by a broken system
Who's gonna raise 'em?
y'all too thick-headed to listen!
Yes indeed, buda tunaexpose hii greed
Hatuneed wengi aleky na wewe tuna lead
Good deeds lazma tupande hizi seeds
La sivo wakulima kesho watavuna weeds
Madem, Maboi, Mamatha na na mabuda tuko united
Hii mission lazma tukue watu farsighted
Zero myopia, kila kitu tuna angalia
Kila mahali hadi ndani ya sindiria
Tukitokea wanakimbia,
atleast next generation itaona health utopia
Shhhhh... lemmi stop here!
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Wanao kutibu, ndo wanao kuharibu
Afya yako wanacheza nayo bila haibu
Aunty ya Auma ule wa Huruma
Naskia yuko in a comma
Babu? nipe sikio nikueleze
Kwani kuliendaje?
Mi hata sijui ntakuambiaje
Auskii allingia labor last year december
Akapelekwa hosi na neighbour
Haraka upesi washaa mshow ako na indegestion
Misdiagnonsis kumbe ni gestational hypertension
madawa-madawa aka get adverse reaction
air constriction, akahave ku undergo operation
Anasthesiologist jana alikua tei- Libation
Wrong callibration, patient sliced up
while wide awake, so messed up
She can feel the scapel go down her abdomen
Excruciating pain! Forgive them father. Amen

WHY THE NAIROBI WOMEN’S HOSPITAL NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN (PART 9)

So much has happened within a very short time. Between exposing the evil deeds taking place at the Nairobi Women's Hospital, organising for a demonstration, being informed of all the on-goings at the hospital, receiving weird messages from weird fellows who kept insisting for a meeting in one pretext or the other, being exposed off only for the person assumed to be me ain't me but another woman who had blown off the cover of the NWH only that she didn't shout loud enough but thanks to our enemies, they dug her out and now Muthoni has joined our wagon, being attacked by hired cyber hooligans to attack our « Events » page https://www.facebook.com/events/260733317374171/ and speak ill of our demonstration, claiming that Plan B includes burning down the hospital yet ours was a peaceful one in memory of those who didn't live to tell their stories, only if the dead could talk ! receiving news on yet another dead fœtus, apparently the foetus was dead since the 6^th week, but the doctor at the NWH where the mama was going for her ante-natal care continued pulling her leg until she went to another hospital at 16 weeks for a second opinion and after having depleted her outpatient cover, only to be told that the foetus was dead!. She had complained of cramping and Doctor Obago gave her two shots of she-doesn’t-know-what and every other month, the story was the same, “baby’s doing fine”, a mother who celebrated her birthday on 3^rd August 2012, fell ill and was rushed at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital and passed on on Sunday 5^th August 2012, being contacted by a defecting doctor who am yet to indulge at length ...to finally proceeding with our arranged peaceful demonstrations that was held on Saturday 4th August, 2012!

I still have lots of stories to tell and still receiving many more, and now the victims even send me their pictures and receipts as evidence to all these !

I think we are beyond the Nairobi Women's Hospital wanting to reform. If there will be any dialogue, it has to start by compensation to the victims. Mr. Sam Nthenya, the CEO of the hospital tried to shove off his arrogance and indulge us from their facebook wall and when he cracked, he said that he was willing to refund any patient who was overcharged. Is that their way of admitting that they indeed overcharge their patients, don’t bother checking because the messages have since been deleted and all those questioning blocked? One lady wrote and said how she was asked to pay Kshs.1,500 for consultation fee, yet the normal price indicated is Kshs.1,000/= and was not issued a receipt. Later, the cashier called her aside and refunded her 200bob but when her chance came to go meet the « doctor » she was surprised that he didn't have all her records including the blood test results. Does this mean that there are figures in there who pretend to be doctors yet they are not ? Another one talked of how they buried their loved one without her kidneys, are they now engaged in selling organs?

Today I’ll paste a message from a lady who fell victim in a terrible way, read on…

Where do i start i checked into NWH last year August. My EDD had passed so the hospital doc recommended i check in and be induced but for some reason i kept on postponing for almost a week i wish i had listened to my self, so the story goes i was not getting labour pains despite my EDD had already passed. I check myself in i got induced using the tablets that they insert but despite getting the 3 doses i still could not get labour pains, the doctor recommended that a CS ati the baby MIGHT get tired and crap ,like that so at around past 9pm i go to the theater and thats where the drama started, i come out of theater and baby is fine 3.5kg when i finally got around i ask the nurse why am i feeling painful on my thigh yet its not the one that was operated on she told me the doctor will come and explain to me.

So the doctor comes the next day and he goes like your thigh got burnt by the sterilizing liquid in the theater but not to worry you will be okay and i will give you medication to apply but before leaving he makes a joke that the only thing i won’t wear for the rest of my life is a miniskirt since the scar will be permanent. I leave hospital with two serious burns on my left knee and the thigh after several days. I get home and after two months the wound stated getting sceptic coz of the medication they gave me so i decided to go to another hospital near my house Avenue health care, the doctor there was very upset with what they had given me no wonder it was not healing , so i got a change of medication and finally my wound started getting better 7 months after i gave birth is when the wound finally got a thick skin on top to cover the inside which till now is still not healed well inside.

I have the photos of that wound then and now but its so gross i cant put them here, so after several months i start taking stock of what might have happened to me that night, in the ward that same night we got burnt 2 women in the theater how do you explain that, my take is these people were called from wherever to come to work since it was at night someone must have been DRUNK in the theater so as to burn not one but two mothers. It is very sad when you give birth through a CS then u get another really big wound that is not healing i was traumatized to say the least and this was my 1st baby. I talked to my lawyer about it and we decided to sue them but when i talked to my friends was told the CEO of that hospital sits in some board that is supposed check into this kinda things so would not get justice so i will not get JUSTICE! Am still looking for answers

For those who didn’t get to catch up with the news on KTN, they showed the demo very cleary, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w27zxaBBo4g and Mr. Nthenya being interviewed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkCwQAPJjnw . It was very lame for him to give rough figures on the statistics on death and complaining about an unsigned petition. You do all that you want to do to brush this issue away, but we are not relenting! We shall continue demonstrating so that everybody everywhere is aware of this butchery!

If the Nairobi Women’s Hospital is taking care of rape victims, how do you explain the story of Maureen Mulenga http://africanewsonline.blogspot.fr/2010/10/maurine-murenga-kenyas-unsung-heroine.html#links the rape victim whom you refused to help and ended up dying?

How do you explain when some of your victims start receiving mysterious calls whenever any of their stories goes public. If you think threats and intimidation is what shall keep you in business, it won’t be for long.

Many people have died under your establishment after coming for a simple operation only for things to complicate, look at the case of Murang’a Deputy Governor, Dr. Molly Wamaitha Mwangi. http://www.the-star.co.ke/local/central/55868-muranga-mourns-death-of-2012-polls-aspirant

What of Elizabeth Aruwa who went for a simple operation and now needs a rectifying surgery to rectify your damages! http://www.actors.co.ke/en/mer/articledetail/214/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10151088997447722_24115345_10151091124727722#fa38c46225e0e2

Dear readers, these are just what comes to my attention, I dig for all these from right here in the web, what of those who are not connected to the internet, who shall speak for them?

Africa News Online: MAURINE MURENGA, KENYA'S UNSUNG HEROINE

For those praising the Nairobi Women's Hospital, read the below story...

Africa News Online: MAURINE MURENGA, KENYA'S UNSUNG HEROINE

MULIKA NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

Supporters of our cause on the Nairobi Women's Hospital are all over and this is just one of the lyrics by a budding artist, Alex Red:-)

1
Hii ni tribute nimechorea waliotuacha
miezi tisa mtoto amezaliwa ka amekacha
mambo gani hii? si siri
hizi ni vitu hazifai kuhappen sahii
matha ana lose mtoi juu ya negligence
haimake sense, hizi ni cases intense
Mama akinyi mtoi wake wa pili
ali die akiwa bado ndani ya mwili
juu daktari ali prescribe dawa imezidi ukali
haki kwani hawa watu hawananga akili
tutapiga noize tuskike hadi na kibaki
hizi kifo za ghafla si hatutaki
sistangu Njesh pia alimadwa kijesh-i
C-section operation dokte alisahau cotton mesh
ndani ya tumbo, kidogo wiki moja akaanza kulia
kumbe ni infection serious juu ya bacteria
Ulterior motives ndo zao
tukichunguza ma barrier wakaweka kibao
Mtasis akadedi june 7th 2007
death certificate, cause of death imeandikwa tu natural causes.
2
Goddamn! naskia kuna poko anajiita Nancy Baraza,
Anajaribu kumaliza kazi tumeanza
hii ni vita kaa ya kipalestina juu ya gaza
aanza kunyamaza, ama usake mtu anaeza kukaza
nyege punguza,
juu mi nawaza ka wewe ushawai zaa
malaya maoni zako nikaa haujakomaa
Suzanne anatry ku raise alert mara that
na we unatushow that you're morally inert
Bitch! use your real eyes, to realize
real lies, until you hear these mothers cries?
Sit your fat ass down and enjoy some fries
Fuck you and your bullshit lies
keep yappin' and i'mma be yo demise
3
Imagine we ndo mzazi umerecieve hii call
saa tisa usiku toka women's hospital
Ati blood pressure ya daughter wako ule ana ball
ime fall juu doc aliorder extra metoprolol
Matha akaingia cardiac shock
mtoi stock yake ya dishi iko blocked
Mwingine nurse ali confuse patient ID
akasahau kulock IV, patient aka OD
RIP body ikapelekwa city mortuaryyy
toxicology report ikashow results contraryyy
habari ndio hiyo, hii system ni corrupt
state of affairs hii hosi ni morally bankrupt
unageuziwa mtoi kwa NICU
Unaambiwa wako amelazwa ICU
meanwhile mama mwingine amefurahi pastor deya
alimwombea saa ako na mtoi wa kulea
na kaa una care, mi naku dare,
spare your time, share na umati hadi mayor
that Nairobi Women's Hospital is a fuckin' NIGHTMARE!!!!
aleky...

HOW KTN COVERED OUR DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

I am pleased to announce that things turned out as expected even though hired hooligans showed up, the police were apt enough to drive them away. 

Can you guys imagine that the Nairobi Women's Hospital actually hired goons to come and cow off peaceful Kenyans out to show their support for their fellows?? This, after a night of a series of cyber attacks from weird individuals who kept posting negative messages about how our group was out to burn down the hospital, how our permit from the police was a fake, how there were bomb blast scares amongst our lot etcetra, it was TERRIBLE!!

They managed to scare off a huge number, and out of the over 500 who registered to attend only about 30 turned up. 

Watch the video to see for yourselves that in Kenya today everything is possible and I say a big thank you to the Police administration who were there with their cars both in front and behind the demonstrators who kept on dishing out the petition to the members of the public.

I am happy that our efforts are slowly bearing its fruits!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w27zxaBBo4g&feature=youtu.be

THE REASONS BEHIND THE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE NAIROBI WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

PETITION

FROM: Women for Kenya; against the high maternal and infant mortality death at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital

TO: 1. The Nairobi Women’s Hospital

2. UNICEF

3. The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board

4. THE Ministry of health- Government of Kenya

DATE: 4^th August 2012

SUBJECT: HIGH INFANT AND MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE; RAMPANT INFLATION OF HOSPITAL BILLS; LAXITY, RUDENESS AND NEGLIGENCE UPON THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN BY THE HOSPITAL STAFF INCLUDING DOCTORS AND NURSES;

1. Nairobi women’s hospital has repeatedly been lauded and recognized as a women’s hospital in the whole of the republic and beyond. They have gender and sexual violence recovery centre that should cater for persons who have undergone gender and sexual violation. They also have a maternal and infant package for women who wish to bring bundles of joy into the earth. But the truth in this hospital is depressing. This hospital has repeatedly violated the rights of Kenyans with regard to provision of the highest attainable standard of health. Women and new born children die at this hospital almost on a daily basis. The hospital has a gravely incompetent staff starting with the management, the doctors, the nurses, down to the supporting staff.
2. Particulars of violations:

1. Trainee nurses who simply stand back and watch you push your baby to death
2. An average of two women in one week dies at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital
3. Women who undergo caesarian section almost always end up brain dead and die.
4. Doctors who fail to respond to distress calls such as excessive bleeding claiming it is normal; women have died as a result
5. On average three new born infants die every day at NWH
6. One woman was charged kshs 1.4 million after she has lost her baby and the Hospital only offered to negotiate the bill downwards after she made other women aware of her predicament.
7. Blatantly overcharging women and correcting the bills without batting an eyelid only after one complains
8. Charging researchers on Gender and Sexual Based Violence kshs 1,000 for every staff interviewed at the Nairobi Women’s hospital.
9. Doctors who don’t wear scrubs or badges and are dressed up in civilian clothes, boots and jackets and one is left wondering whether the person inserting his fingers into your vagina is a doctor or just a passerby who decided to stop by and have some fun.
10. Nurses who sit by and engage each other in story telling even when you press the button for attention; sometimes they take upto four hours to respond to your distress call by which time you have no energy left.

3. Demands:

The Nairobi Women’s hospital must: Stop overcharging women; Employ professional doctors and nurses who are committed to its mission and vision and supervise them effectively; Eradicate maternal and infant mortality rate altogether-in this day and age, a woman should not die giving birth in an up market hospital like NWH; PROVIDE satisfactory explanation to all the women and children who have suffered violations and to the families of those who have passed on (you have a database so quit asking us for the complaints we have compiled); refund the overcharged clients or THEY JUST SHUT DOWN THE FACILITY ALTOGETHER.

The Medical Practitioners and Dentist’s Board must investigate ALL THE MATERNAL AND INFANT DEATHS at NWH within a reasonable time;

The Ministry of Health must step up its supervisory role and investigate the Nairobi women’s hospital

UNICEF should partner with the ministry of health and the various advocacy groups such as this one to monitor this hospital and hold it accountable.

4. Failure to meet the above demands by the Nairobi women’s hospital, the medical practitioners and dentists’ board and the ministry of health shall result in a rallying call on all citizens to boycott Nairobi Women’s hospital in addition to filing a lawsuit against all the premature deaths that befell our fellow Kenyan women and their new borns. We shall also demand that the facility shuts down thereafter.

5. This petition is presented by and on behalf of the following persons:

1. Suzanne Toure
2. HELLO mama- Kenyan moms against infant and maternal mortality
3. Women for Kenya
4. HELLO daddy- Kenyan dads against infant and maternal mortality
   
   
   Petition list;
   http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nairobiwomenshospital/signatures.html

PRESS RELEASE

ATTENTION: ALL NEWS EDITORS.
Nairobi., 31st^th July 2012. The Nairobi Women’s Hospital, in all its stature and confines, belies an issue that to the general public might be simply too painful to acknowledge.

Within is a rot that involves persistent negligence, mistreatment, pain, scarring and death. Contained are actual people crying and suffering, something which the hospital CEO Sam Nthenya responded to in arrogance, calling it ‘payukaring’ and equating it ‘mob justice’.

To the many who are now listening at those speaking up, the sense that we have been betrayed by the Nairobi Women’s Hospital is at times just overwhelming.

Why have we been betrayed by the Nairobi Women’s Hospital?

Here are SOME of the ‘mob justice ’ ‘payukaring’ comments the CEO listened to:

"...her theatre story was horror, her anaesthesia didn’t quite work and imagine she told me that she could feel as they operated but couldn’t do much...."

" They broke my daughters hand during delivery and no one mentioned it to me."

"I met one who was in civilian clothes...with no badge to identify himself....he just came in to my bed when I had contractions....rudely told me that he wanted to check if I have dilated....to date, I honestly do not know if he was really a doctor or someone out to have fun with pregnant women"

“I was admitted the previous night and prepared for the early morning operation. That’s the last thing I remember. Next time I opened my eyes it was three weeks later.”

(The above and more to be found in the blog http://suztoure.blogspot.fr/are real accounts from the victims themselves)
What is our fight with Nairobi Women’s Hospital?

WE WANT REFORM.

This is not something that should be happening in Kenya and in 2012. We want the public, the press, the donors, the stakeholders to join us in our fight. We will not leave this hospital to serve pain, death and suffering where we were to go to get bundles of beauty, life and joy.

We want to give the victims from Nairobi Women’s Hospital and their families a voice so that tomorrow there will be NO VICTIMS AND NO MORE WOUNDED FAMILIES.

For this reason, we have together with the victims organized a demonstration for Saturday, 4th August 2012 from 9.00am, the meeting point being the Total Petrol Station in Hurlingham (Route No. 46), we walk up towards NWH Hurlingham branch, Argwings Kodhek Road, then walk past Yaya Center, turn at Kirichwa Road to get to NWH Adams branch

We invite you to be part of this event and witness a show down portraying what Nairobi Women’s Hospital is not.

Attached, find the necessary links that shall give you an idea of the origin of all this.
http://suztoure.blogspot.fr/

For details on the demonstration to be held on Saturday, 4th August 2012;https://www.facebook.com/events/260733317374171/

If you want to tell your story;https://www.facebook.com/groups/426119994092761/

To sign a petition;http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nairobiwomenshospital/sign.html

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions; sadhi80@gmail.com  women4kenya@gmail.com