Kenyatta National Hospital on the Spot after Death of 11 Infants
Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is on the spot following the alleged death of 11 newborn babies at the facility.
The infants allegedly passed away last week from what is suspected to be a bacterium infection known as Klebsiella, Daily Nation reported.
The publication said the situation was blamed on lack of basic necessities in the country's largest medical facility for taking care of babies.
Sources from the hospital who spoke to Daily Nation divulged that the infants succumbed to Klebsiella and other factors such as poor state of wards in the newborn unit.
Nurses at KNH said they have been forced to improvise feeding tubes and syringes, which cause bruises and bleeding in the babies’ noses and mouths.
Nasogastric tubes, which are used to feed babies through the nose or mouth are out of stock, staffs said.
The infants are further forced to share cots, putting them at risk of infecting each other with bugs like Klebsiella.
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What a freaking shame! This…
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What a freaking shame! This is what happens when you fill in crucial positions in government like health department with politicians like Sicily Kariuki who would rather be yapping away with her comrades in team kieleweke fighting tanganga. How can sick or immunosuppressed infants be sharing cots in 2019? We all know someone stole the cots money somewhere along the way. All those deaths could have been prevented using simple infection control measures. What a shame! Very painful indeed.
Kenyatta, Kenyatta, Kenyatta…
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Kenyatta, Kenyatta, Kenyatta, if Uhuru cannot help improve services at our premier hospital named after his late father, don’t tell me any improvement in health services to Kenyans, one of his big 4 agendas means anything. His friend’s hospital, Kirinyaga hospital is in shambles. Stop singing the song of improving health, tell us you don’t care when people die. We call RAO the lord of poverty, now we know who is the lord of death.
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