Pumwani hospital was trending for the most part of Monday afternoon for all the wrong reasons. This is after Governor Mike Sonko paid an impromptu visit to the facility following a tip-off from a mother whose child had died mysteriously.
True to the tip off, the governor found 12 corpses of infants hidden in cartons. The bodies were wrapped together in polythene bags and stuffed in three boxes inside a store as opposed to a mortuary.
One box contained one body, another six and another five. The governor streamed the raid live on his Facebook account, in a video that looked like a scene from a horror movie.
Sonko has reacted by firing the top management of the hospital. But there is more to this story than what meets the eye. Why were the corpses stashed away in boxes and not in the mortuary? Is the Staff at the hospital involved in a certain kind of cult?
Have you ever had stories of mothers telling you they gave birth to health babies but were later told that their babies had died mysteriously? These stories are very common in public hospitals in Kenya. Pumwani Maternity hospital, being in a slum receives more patients than most city hospitals.
And the staff at the hospital have taken advantage of the poor mothers to start a booming baby business.
The dead babies Mike Sonko found are actually dead but whenever new mother gives birth,they replace them immediately with the dead one and sell them to their customers who are waiting just within the hospital.
Imagine having raw sex, impregnating your lady, she carries the pregnancy for 9 months, you take her to Pumwani hospital, she delivers a healthy kipii, later the nurse exchanges your baby with a dead baby and your baby is sold.
We thank Governor Sonko for exposing the dead babies, but we want more to be done. We want the culprits to be brought to book.