Couple claims their newborn baby disappear mysteriously at a Kisumu hospital.

 Tobias Ochieng and his wife Inviolata Awino at their home in Nyamasaria when they addressed the press while saying they are yet to comes to terms with the alleged disappearance of their newborn baby a a hospital in Kisumu-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo.

  

 November 28, 2018.

Couple claims their newborn baby disappear mysteriously at a Kisumu hospital.

AGONY has engulfed a family within Nyamasaria area in Kisumu East Constituency following an alleged disappearance of their newborn baby at a health facility within Kisumu city.

The family says they have failed to come to terms under what circumstances did their newborn baby disappeared immediately after the mother delivered through a caesarian section at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital last Monday on November 19 this year. 

Speaking to the press to explain their predicament today at their house within Nyamasaria area, the couple identified as Inviolata Awino and her husband Tobias Ochieng both 31 years said they cannot tell exactly how their newborn baby who is supposed to be their first born disappeared within the facility.

According Inviolata Awino, she went to the hospital after she experienced some discharge which was abnormal since she was expecting and was admitted to the facility where she was eventually taken to theatre for caesarian section which she says was successful.

She adds that the surgery took about five hours from 5:00pm to around 10:00pm on that day fateful day.

She claims that after the caesarian, she heard a baby crying next to her but she did not see the infant since she was semi-unconscious.

Awino further says a nurse who took over from the one who was on duty at night is the one who broke news to her the following day which was on Tuesday at around 9:00 am that her baby had passed on while being taken to nursery.

“The nurse came to me at the recovery room and asked me whether I have been given any information in regard to my child and I told her that I had no information. It was at this point that she told me that my baby died while being taken to the nursery,” Awino said amidst sobbing uncontrollably.

Awino adds that she was only informed about the death of her child after the body of the infant was transferred to the mortuary of the same health facility, wondering why the family was not informed before the taking baby’s body to the mortuary.

She further narrates that the health facility told her and the husband to do a DNA on the body of the child they had been told was theirs, adding that this was to be at their own cost.

The family demands to know what happened between the theater and the nursery where the baby was being taken, adding that the nurse who received the child immediately after the surgery should come out and clear the air on the issue.

The family says they cannot do a DNA to ascertain the paternity of the child at their cost while maintaining that the health facility should take such responsibility.

On his part, Tobias Ochieng also 31, the husband of Inviolata Awino says they have been shocked by what happened to them after the mysterious disappearance of their newborn baby at the facility.

He says he was only informed about the death of the baby by ten o’clock the following Tuesday after being taken to the morgue, adding that he is wondering why he was not  informed as the next of keen earlier enough even after he left his contacts with the health facility.

He appeals to the Government and other relevant authorities to help the family unravel the mysterious incident.

He says the family should be assisted to do a DNA Test with the help of a private doctor, claiming that the one that will be done by the Government doctors may not produce a true result.

When Journalists visited Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital for its comment, the Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Peter Okoth said they are not aware of such a case but added that if at all there is such a complaint the matter should be reported to the police since that is a criminal offence for the police to take up investigations.

“Our position is that there is nothing like that and if at all there is such a complaint then it should be reported to the police so that the matter be investigated,” Dr. Okoth says.

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