The two were last week on Tuesday expecting to return home with their newborn twins and raise them as a couple. But Maurine, 28, did not make it after delivery.
She delivered the babies at Mama Lucy Hospital. Excessive bleeding claimed the life of Maurine.
NMS director of medical services Ouma Oluga declined to comment, saying they had let the media report without their side of the story.
"Just do as Nation did. Write it without our comment," he said.
Maurine checked into the hospital last Monday in labour.
The following day, she gave birth to twins Charles Roberts and Lionel Roberts via Caesarian section.
The Star met Omondi at Kenyatta National Hospital on Sunday in the paediatric ward where the two boys are getting jaundice treatment.
He said just before the boys were born, the nurses told him to go and wait for their call.
He dashed back to the house, a five-minute motorbike ride, to clean it, wash clothes and cook for his wife.
“My wife had told me to clean the bedding and the house so the babies can come into a clean environment. I awaited the call with crossed fingers,” he narrated to the Star.
It was their first birth experience.
The call came that the boys had arrived and he left all he was doing for the hospital.
“I’m a first-time father. I can’t explain that joy I had seeing the twins healthy and well. In fact, one of them was quick and he had already located the breast. The other had to be helped.”
The joy did not last.
Robert said his wife was tired and was on a drip. While he played with the children, he observed that the drip was exhausted and her blood was being sucked up the pipe.
“I alerted the nurses immediately to help her because a lot of blood had moved up the pipe.”
Maurine was also bleeding on her bedding, her clothes soaked in blood.
“I also noted that blood was dripping on the floor. I called the nurses but none came. They shouted back at me that what I was asking was easy to do, that I should even do it by myself,” he said.
The nurses wanted him to remove the pipe from the intravenous needle on his wife’s hand and tie up the pipe. But bleeding persisted.
“Maurine then asked me to remove cotton wool from her wound that was soaked with blood and put a fresh one. I did it by myself after the nurses refused to help.”
It took shouting by other women in the ward for the nurses to give Maurine attention.
And when they came, they told Omondi to leave, sealing off her bed to attend to her. This was the start of the end of Robert being with his wife.
At one point, he heard Maurine cry and he peeped in but only saw one of her legs. He didn’t know what was going on.
She was then wheeled into another theatre room.
"As she was wheeled away, she said that I buy Nan for the boys because they were hungry."
Omondi had to start taking care of the infants all alone. Thankfully, his sister-in-law was around and has been handy.
The wait by Omondi and conflicting explanations by the nurses, selling false hope, persisted until Wednesday midday.
After some time, the doctors told him to calm down and that Maurine had lost a lot of blood but everything was under control.
“They told me that she needed three pints of blood and that would be all. They said they were doing all they could, and that she was doing well.”
The news gave him a sigh of relief and hope. But that did not last long.
As the evening approached, the nurses called him again, this time saying his wife's condition had deteriorated and she was being moved to the ICU.
“I got shocked because not long ago they told me my wife was doing well, just needing three pints of blood. ICU again? And I always know that when the word ICU is mentioned, it's not a good sign.”
He shared the news with his sister-in-law. Both were now frozen with fear.
As night came, the nurses were ready with other news.
“They told me they were looking for a referral and that both Kenya University Hospital and Machakos Level 5 were demanding Sh200,000 cash before starting to process her. I only had Sh2,000.”
“When I started crying and telling them I had no money, they told me that crying won’t help me and that I should start calling to raise money.”
“They eventually said they had found space at Kiambu level 5 where they would treat her and I pay later. I was relieved. That was around 9pm.”
“They said they were waiting for an ambulance.”
The wait for an ambulance took close to four hours, and they arrived at the hospital at 1.10am.
At around 8:30am on Thursday his wife died. Omondi believes his wife's life could have been saved.
Omondi sells smokies and chapati on the roadside while Maurine operated an eatery which she closed when she was due to deliver.
Omondi is now appealing for help to meet the basics of the infants, including diapers, clothing and food.
He is still saddled with hospital and morgue bills besides dealing with the emotional toll of loss.
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