The Pumwani Maternity Hospital has been dealt a major blow after the High Court ordered the hospital to pay Ksh7.5 million in compensation to a patient for alleged negligence by its staff.
In a ruling delivered on Wednesday, Justice Lawrence Mugambi found that nurses and doctors in the hospital acted in gross negligence during her 2019 delivery by delaying emergency treatment for more than eleven hours despite clear indications of a critical condition.
This lapse ultimately resulted in the stillbirth of her child and the unwarranted, non-consensual removal of her uterus, thereby violating her constitutional rights to the highest attainable standards of healthcare, inherent human dignity, and freedom from psychological torture.
The patient identified as LL in the court documents is a woman who hails from one of the slums in Nairobi.
