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!!!!