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??