Upon the death of her son, at Mbagathi Hospital, she was forced to carry the body of her child for about 5 kilometers to the City Mortuary as the facility officials claimed they could not help transport it.
Auma noted that after the son died while being attended to at Mbagathi Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia, the doctor instructed her to take her child to the mortuary.
She was also instructed to go to the police post at KNH to get a clearance letter to take the baby to any mortuary.
She had to walk the ‘longest’ journey with the weight of her dead six-month-old boy in her arms, on Wednesday, to a police post at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) where she was to file a notification.
If that was not so much for a grieving mother, she had to still walk with the lifeless body of her –once- active son to City Mortuary where the attendants kept her waiting for hours.
In the company of her mother, Linet Atieno, they sat on the bench at the mortuary for at least three hours, all the while holding on to the corpse, as they waited to be attended to.
“We came at around 10:30am and did not find anyone, so we sat on the bench,” Ms Atieno mentioned.
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Finally, Immaculate got help after intervention of human rights activists who were at the mortuary waiting for a postmortem to be carried out on the body of the late Caroline Mwatha whose body was found at the morgue.
“What if she was traumatized and got knocked by a vehicle while walking to this place?” posed one activist.
It was after the intervention that an attendant offered her help and took the body of her son.
Meanwhile nilisoma ati mtoto wa baba vile ali collapse Naivasha, the hotel she was staying at first requested for an ambulance. Several arrived. Zikaonekana hazitoshi mboga.
Baba akaitisha medical helicopter. Sikuwa najua zina exist Kenya. Mtoto akakimbishwa Nairobi hospital. Then from Nairobi hospital accompanied by Luo Kenya’s finest professors down to S.A.
From S.A. to the top surgeon in China… all within a few days.
Yaani Immaculate Auma hawezi pewa hata ile pick up inabeba mchanga hapo kwa hospitali.
Out of the hundreds of ambulances we saw at Dusit recently, Immaculate Auma couldn’t get just one ambulance? Moja tu.
Her baby’s untimely death is another injustice by itself because we’re supposed to have pediatric icu’s for critically ill babies. Severe pneumonia in kids requires immediate IV antibiotics and lung support.
Auma could even be hit by a car while walking because of the heartbreak. In this hot January sun, imagine the trek from the hospital to the police station then to city mortuary. Each institution with its own bureaucracy and long wait times. The police couldn’t even volunteer to give her a ride or rent her a car??
If this is happening in Nairobi, imagine what is going on in other areas of Kenya. We are just a shithole country and this is probably not the saddest thing you will read about Kenya this week.
at least katoi kalikufa kabla kaone live ile injustice huwa hii dunia,unazaliwa na shida na unakufa na shida kama mamake,imagine hakuna mtu huyo mathe alikuwa anajua hata kama hana gari ako na bodaboda.sad