Ministry should act on negligence in hospitals

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Circumstances leading to the death of baby Joseph Ngugi in Kiambu County read like a thriller, except that they are, sadly, real. From life to death, back to life and finally death, it seems like an element of negligence by medics put the final nail in the infant’s coffin.

Accounts by the infant’s parents are that when the baby fell sick, he was first taken to Ngewa Health Centre from where he was referred to Kiambu Level 5 Hospital. Two weeks earlier, the boy’s twin sister is said to have died at the Kiambu Level 5 Hospital under unclear circumstances.