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??