The death of a woman while giving birth at Taita Taveta’s Moi County Referral Hospital in Voi, has sparked outrage among residents and a section of women leaders.
Ms Fatuma Mugambi is alleged to have died on Monday due to lack of electricity at the hospital’s theatre.
The standby generator, that supplies power during outages, could not supply sufficient electricity to the whole hospital.
The theatre and the CT scan centre are among the crucial departments that were hit by the power crisis that made the facility to refer patients to neighbouring sub county hospitals.
According to sources at the hospital, Ms Mugambi died while waiting to be transferred to Wesu Hospital in Wundanyi for a caesarean section.
Her sister-in-law, Mercy Dishan said that Ms Mugambi was referred to the hospital from Bughuta Dispensary on Sunday night.
She revealed that Ms Mugambi, a mother of four, had a prolonged labour before the nurse in charge at Bughuta Dispensary told them that the patient had to undergo a caesarean section.
Ms Dishan said that they arrived at the Moi County Referral Hospital at 10pm on Sunday only for her sister-in-law to be attended to at 3am the following day.