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:
4th
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;
- 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.
- Particulars of violations:
- Trainee nurses who simply stand back and watch you push your baby to death
- An average of two women in one week dies at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital
- Women who undergo caesarian section almost always end up brain dead and die.
- Doctors who fail to respond to distress calls such as excessive bleeding claiming it is normal; women have died as a result
- On average three new born infants die every day at NWH
- 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.
- Blatantly overcharging women and correcting the bills without batting an eyelid only after one complains
- Charging researchers on Gender and Sexual Based Violence kshs 1,000 for every staff interviewed at the Nairobi Women’s hospital.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This petition is presented by and on behalf of the following persons:
- Suzanne Toure
- HELLO mama- Kenyan moms against infant and maternal mortality
- Women for Kenya
- HELLO daddy- Kenyan dads against infant and maternal mortality
Petition list;
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nairobiwomenshospital/signatures.html
