Woman Who Gave Birth on the Floor at Shalom Hospital Speaks, Wants the Man Behind Viral Video Arrested
The woman who gave birth on the floor at Shalom Hospital in Athi River over the weekend has defended the facility's nurses against allegations of negligence.
Speaking to Citizen TV from the hospital bed, the woman has blamed the man who filmed the incident, stating that the nurses are innocent.
She notes that there was no negligence since the baby came out immediately she arrived at the hospital and there is nothing the health workers could have done.
“Haikukua vile mliskia huko nje… Ilikua dakika ya mwisho na hakuna kuzuia sasa nlifika hivi na hakukua otherwise. Vile nilifika hivi kwa hospitali, mtoto akatoka. So hakuna mwenye alinibeba vibaya hakuna mwenye alikua amelegea. Sasa mimi nasema mwenye ameshikwa aachiliwe. Hakuna mwenye ako na makosa,” she says.
(The incident was misreported. Everything happened so quickly and soon as I got to the hospital the baby came out. No one mishandled me. Please release the nurses who have been arrested. They did not do anything wrong.)
She wants the man who recorded the incident arrested. “The one who recorded the video should be arrested. I even thought he is a doctor. He has really offended me.”
On Monday, the hospital’s administrator Thomas Ndolo was arrested alongside two nurses identified as Edna Nyarangi and John Ndege.
Police said Ndolo was arrested for alleged negligence while the nurses are accused of operating without licenses.
Their arrest came after health officials from the Machakos County Government, Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB) and Nurses Union toured the facility to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.
“It is our findings as a team that there were issues of negligence within the institution and how the patient was treated,” said Dr. Nelly Bosire.
The man who filmed the incident claimed that the nurses watched and enjoyed their tea as the woman labored despite being informed that it was an emergency case.
In the viral video, the man is heard scolding the nurses for neglecting the woman.
“Why have you let the baby fall on the floor, while you are just taking tea?” poses the man in the video.