Family loses a mother and a boy child

A family in Baringo central is crying for justice following the lose of a baby and mother at Kabarnet district hospital due to negligence by the hospital resulting to excessive bleeding.

The 28 year old woman died while on transit to Moi teaching and referral, Jonathan Kamket, husband to the deceased said while in his residence in Buruburu estate in Kabarnet, today and admitted that the death of his wife is still raw and seeks to know why the hospital couldn't handle the situation.

Jonathan said they, arrived at the hospital with her wife on Friday, 9,Oct where his wife was told to wait in the waiting room. He left the hospital at 7am to prepare their first born daughter for school before going to workplace to request for a leave break.

Ivy Jebet having received a text from the deceased at  5 O' clock rushed to the hospital at 7 am where the doctors requested her to buy drugs for the patient. Jebet called the husband who brought the medicine.

To his disappointment, Jonathan said on his arrival, he found the doctors forcing his wife to climb on a raised surgical bed, he wanted to assist her but the nurses refused. His wife was taken to the caesarian unit.

Kamket and Jebet said that after an hour of waiting, a nurse told them that delivery was successful and a baby boy was born. No sooner were they relieved than a report came that the baby could not breath and had died, the remaining option was to save the mother from excessive bleeding.

Kamket received a report that the blood bank was dry thus there was emergency to seek for blood transfusion at Moi teaching and referral hospital in Eldoret. The engine was started at 11 O'clock but went off twice at Chepsigot and Chembulet before arriving at Eldoret, Kamket said.

Jebet said that the late Doris Keitany, younger sister to her mother breath her last at Kimumu before arriving at the hospital. Jebet added that the husband to the late couldn't bear with the situation an act that forced the doctor to silence him.

Responding to the incident, the health chief executive committee Baringo county, Moses Atuko, said that the deceased had low red blood cells thus couldn't allow a caeserin to be done. At the same time there were no blood for transfusion.

Atuko added that there were no cases of doctors' negligence as three doctors and one intern were there at the moment when the deceased arrived at the hospital. Atuko confrmed that there were no major issues in the hospital at the moment.

However, Atuko said that blood shortage is a national crisis due to systematic and donor issues. He said that recently secondary schools which proves to be the major blood donors were closed due to teachers' strike.

Blood is a being ingredient and thus there is need to expound on screening centres by opening up satellite units at county levels, Atuko said.