Monument of Shame: Why Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital has become a monument of shame in the country
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2022-10-15
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On a normal occasion when you walk into a hospital ward, you may not expect to see a cat.
At the Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital in Nairobi, however, as nurses, doctors and other staff go about their business, a brown cat trots around the ward and disappears under one of the beds at a unit housing new-borns.
Nobody here appears bothered by the feline ‘doing its rounds’. In a normal fully equipped hospital, when a patient needing emergency care is brought in, one would expect a gurney or a stretcher to be rushed to get the patient to the emergency room for medical staff to save them.
One would also expect quality service at a facility with the status of a referral hospital named after a former first lady.
But as The Saturday Standard found out, Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital, located between Umoja-II and Komarock estates, 11 Kilometers East of Nairobi, faces teething challenges. Some patients say the facility neither lives up to its name nor its status.
At the Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital in Nairobi, however, as nurses, doctors and other staff go about their business, a brown cat trots around the ward and disappears under one of the beds at a unit housing new-borns.
Nobody here appears bothered by the feline ‘doing its rounds’. In a normal fully equipped hospital, when a patient needing emergency care is brought in, one would expect a gurney or a stretcher to be rushed to get the patient to the emergency room for medical staff to save them.
One would also expect quality service at a facility with the status of a referral hospital named after a former first lady.
But as The Saturday Standard found out, Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital, located between Umoja-II and Komarock estates, 11 Kilometers East of Nairobi, faces teething challenges. Some patients say the facility neither lives up to its name nor its status.
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