Woman Succumbs to Post Maternity Complications at Naivasha Level IV

Naivasha Level IV Hospital is on the spot following the controversial death of a woman a day after delivering in the public facility.

Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca Wangari died from massive bleeding after earlier delivering on the maternity bed alone as she waited for assistance from the medics.

Following the incident, irate area residents stormed the facility blocking a part of Kenyatta road while calling for justice for the Wangari who was looking forward to being a new mother.

Emotions ran high among friends as relatives with allegations that several cases of maternal deaths had been reported in the hospital.

The hospital was however quick to deny this noting that they had opened an inquest into the cases that had left tongues wagging in Naivasha town.

According to Samuel Muhari, a brother to the deceased, delays and negligence from the medics was to blame for the death.

He narrated how it took the facility over eight hours to admit her sister who was in labour pains on Friday only to abandon her in the maternity wings.

“She was in great pain and didn’t get any help and she delivered on the hospital bed before being rushed to the theatre after bleeding for a long time,” he said.

The emotional brother said that they had to donate blood two days later to assist Wangari whose condition was getting worse by the day.

“At one time she narrated her tribulations under the medics before she was rushed back to the ward after her condition deteriorated leading to her death on Sunday,” he said.

The elder sister Miriam Wambui said that the deceased did not have any medical condition before she was admitted to the hospital.

“She has left behind the newborn baby in the maternity wing and we blame the doctors for this painful death of our last born,” she said.

A local leader Simon Peter alleged that the hospital had been run down leading to rising cases of medical negligence and even deaths.

“This is not the first incident of maternal death reported in this facility and its time that action was taken and those responsible held accountable,” he said.

The hospital administrator Elisha Mucheru however denied this terming the incident as unfortunate in the facility that recorded 20-23 deliveries every day.

“We have launched an internal audit to determine what really happened so that the necessary action can be taken,” he said.

This was echoed by Dr Douglas Osoro who said that on the particular day of the incident, the facility was overwhelmed by the number of emergency cases in the maternity theatre.

“Every day we have around eight deliveries that require caesarian operations and this is a rare and unfortunate incident,” said Osoro, who is in charge of clinical services.