A young woman has gone public with a heartbreaking account of alleged medical negligence at Scion Hospital, a private facility in Nairobi’s Imara Daima area.
According to her emotional testimony shared on Instagram, her unborn baby died in the womb after she was reportedly left unattended for hours by hospital staff during a medical emergency.
The woman claims she arrived at the hospital late Tuesday night in distress, experiencing signs that her pregnancy was in jeopardy.
She says that by 1 a.m. on Wednesday, her baby had died inside her womb, but despite raising multiple alarms, she received no urgent medical attention.
In her post, she accuses the hospital of misleading her family into signing consent forms for an emergency surgical procedure.
They were allegedly assured that a surgeon was available, but she later discovered that no surgical team was present. She recounts how hospital staff appeared to fake calls and stall for time as her condition worsened.
The situation, she says, became dire when she was left alone on an operating table with no medical personnel in sight. Feeling abandoned and fearing for her life, she made the desperate decision to flee the hospital.
She claims she ran out barefoot, bleeding, with a catheter still attached, and carrying her deceased baby inside her.
Her story has sparked outrage on social media, with many Kenyans expressing horror at the events described. Others have shared their own troubling experiences with maternal care in private hospitals, suggesting a wider crisis in emergency medical response.
The woman says her baby’s death was entirely preventable and attributes it to the hospital’s failure to act responsibly and transparently.
As of Thursday evening, Scion Hospital had not released an official response to the allegations.
