•When his family found him, he appeared slightly confused, his nice cotton shirt ripped off, blue jeans partly pulled down, shoes off and a white torn shirt.
•Eddy had been hit by a lorry while riding as a passenger along Kangundo Road, not far from the hospital. He was unconscious at the moment.
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Eddy Otieno lay on the cold-titled hospital floor less than two meters away from the nurses’ desk. Next to him was a black wheelchair.
A cleaner came with a wet mop and cleaned around him.
He had been brought to Mama Lucy hospital by cops from Mowlem police post between 10.30 pm and 11 pm.
When his family found him, he appeared slightly confused, his nice cotton shirt ripped off, blue jeans partly pulled down, shoes off and a white shirt torn.
Eddy had been hit by a lorry while riding as a passenger along Kangundo Road, not far from the hospital. He was unconscious at the moment.
But when they got to the hospital he was awake at the back of the truck. He gave out his mother’s number to the cops who called her to inform her of what had happened.
"The police told me to hurry up because nobody will touch my son if no relative gets there,” Ruth Atieno, Eddy’s mother recounted before the Senate health committee.
She opted to call her sister who stays in Ruai, 30 minutes away from the hospital.
“I called my sister and told her what was happening. I then called Eddie, he picked ad said he didn’t know where he was and what was happening,” she added.
They then used a wheelchair to walk him to the emergency unit of the hospital.
Eddie would later share a contact with a lady within the hospital known as Pauline, with his mother.
Emily Rogena, Ruth’s sister together with her husband made the journey to the hospital using Pauline’s number as the guide to the emergency unit.
“He was pleading for help and appeared very pale, the right eye closed with a dark eyelid while his left eye appeared normal,” Rogena told the committee.
She quickly covered him with a shawl, he needed blood. He had not been attended to since he had been brought in by the police.
Pauline took Rogena to the stitching room where they found two doctors, luckily, one was his former student in 2017.
He quickly swung into action. He picked up Eddy’s medical sheet from a bunch of papers on the nurse’s desk. He managed to get a few details from the patient. While a colleague helped record blood pressure.
“On our way, we had called a St John’s ambulance because we knew he would need an ICU so the ambulance arrived,” she said.
“KUTRRH was the destination that was not to be. As we tried to get him into the ambulance, I noticed Eddie roll back his eyes, he was gasping,” she added.
They quickly began resuscitating him. The ambulance had no bag that could fit the nozzle from the oxygen tank.
At 2 am on September 12, Eddie breathed his last.
A postmortem conducted by the government pathologist Johansen Oduor showed he had died due to multiple injuries and excessive loss of blood.
The Senate committee led by Uasin Gishu senator Jackson Mandago plans to summon the management of the hospital after the hospital has been in the limelight for the wrong reasons.
Mandago has further promised to ensure that the committee’s recommendations are implemented to the latter in an effort to ensure affected families get justice.