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How lengthy SHA clearance caused death of pregnant woman, baby at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital

Faustina Mbithe, who died at Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital on Thursday while waiting to gove birth.[Courtesy]

On December 11, Festus Wambua was looking forward to celebrating the birth of his second boy at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Nairobi.

However, that never came to be after the hospital delayed to help his wife, Faustina Mbithe, deliver her child, leading to the death of the two.

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