A postmortem on the 11 infant bodies found by Governor Mike Sonko at Pumwani Hospital on Monday will be conducted on Tuesday next week at the City mortuary.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights( KNCHR) Vice Chair George Morara stated that the purpose of the report was to rule out any possibility of professional negligence resulting to the death of the infants.
“We want to know whether there was any sort of professional negligence involved in the death of those babies by comparing the results we will get with what the management of the hospital presented,” said Morara.
On 18th Sept 2018 KNCHR had a press release citing that anyone responsible in the death of the infants will be held accountable.
KNCHR ANY PERSON WHO WAS NEGLIGENT ON THEIR JOBS IN PUMWANI MATERNITY HOSPITAL SHOULD BE HELD ACC: https://t.co/X1HljrxMNs via
— KNCHR (@HakiKNCHR) September 21, 2018
He said if the pathologist’s report establishes there was professional negligence those responsible will face strict disciplinary measures.
The management of the hospital early this week said that no one is to be blamed for the deaths and that each body can be accounted for.
They indicated that some reasons for the deaths include underweight, still births, post- partum haemorrhage, prolonged labour pains among other reasons that doctors did not have control over.