A Kenyan gynecologist Nelly Bosire who offers women Health Education through has gone to social media to explain what might have transpired to the infant bodies found by Governor Mike Sonko at Pumwani Hospital on Monday.
Bosire says the Hospital has faced public mobbing for one more time led by its own Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
1. One more time Pumwani hospital faces public mobbing, led by it’s very own governor. He suspends his foot soldiers instead of his ‘advisors’. What happened to facts? The press has joined in the lynching @KTNNews @ntvkenya @KTNKenya
— Nelly Bosire (@Starlight_Bo) September 17, 2018
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She goes ahead to note that Pumwani has no morgue and that all bodies of deceased mothers, newborns and stillbirths are collected by the city mortuary morticians in the morning.
2. Pumwani has no morgue. Never has. All bodies of deceased Mothers, newborns and stillbirths are collected by the city mortuary morticians in the morning. Before, this happened daily, nowadays it happens Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
— Nelly Bosire (@Starlight_Bo) September 17, 2018
For the little angels who pass on before birth or in the new born units due to complications, the families have the option of taking them to bury or they can give them up and the hospital then has them buried.
This happens in both public and private sector, permissible by law.
Further, Bosire cites that there are no body bags to keep the deceased before transfer to the morgue and thus the Hospital staff have to make do with whats available.
4. There are no body bags to keep the deceased in before transfer to the morgue. Hospital staff have to make do with what’s available. Carton boxes and plastic disposal bags are the most available temporary storage for these little angels.
— Nelly Bosire (@Starlight_Bo) September 17, 2018
Carton boxes and plastic disposal bags are the most available temporary storage for these little angels.
Every deceased person, irrespective of age, is registered in the death notification register provided by by the registrar of persons (births and deaths).
5. Every deceased person, irrespective of age, is registered in the death notification register provided by the registrar of persons (births and deaths). Each of these little ones is moved to city mortuary with an attached notification. They are not just statistics.
— Nelly Bosire (@Starlight_Bo) September 17, 2018
Each of these little ones is moved to the city mortuary with an attached notification, they are not just statistics.
Pumwani has accounted for six deaths in the period between Friday 14th to Sunday 16th.