Susan Mburu, a mother to three-year-old Leon Nyongesa has narrated a heart-wrenching ordeal in which her son bled to death at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Ms Mburu narrated that on March 25, 2019, her son was well until that evening when he fell ill and she took him to a clinic near their home.
On Tuesday, she made several visits to the clinic, where the son had been diagnosed with pneumonia but decided to seek a second opinion from Kenyatta National Hospital after the boy fell seriously ill at midnight.
“We got to KNH before 2 a.m. and stayed in line waiting to see a doctor for hours. It was only at 7.30 a.m. that we were finally attended to,” she told The Standard.
Nyongesa was immediately admitted and the doctors told her and the husband that their son was suffering from malaria.
Reports by The Standard indicated that Nyongesa was never seen by a doctor during his stay at the hospital.
When Ms Mburu noticed that the drip was not transmitting fluids into the body but pulling out blood, she went to a desk where the doctors and nurses were seated to alert them, but they told her that they did not want to be disturbed.
"Why can't he drink water through the mouth?" they questioned.
Ms Mburu narrated that desperation led her and her husband to pull out the drip from their little boy, which led to blood spilling onto the sheets and clothes.
They rushed the boy to the doctors again but all they could tell her was that the boy was dirtying their desk with the blood.
“You will know this is Kenyatta, not a private hospital," the doctor in charge of the ward reportedly told her.
The three-year-old's mother asked to be discharged so that she could take her baby to another hospital but the staff refused.
Ms Mburu narrated that as the day progressed, their baby got worse as he experienced heart palpitations and bleeding from the mouth.
She added that there was a student at the hospital who tried to help them by inserting oxygen pipes in Nyongesa's nostrils. However, blood started oozing out and the student claimed that he might be bleeding internally.
Their baby died at 9pm on March 27 after blood oozed out when the oxygen pipes were removed.
The boy's mother narrated that it is at this point that three doctors and nurses flooded the three-year-old's bed.
