By Lee Osbourne
Just two days after Jean Kiconco, an employee of National Social Security Fund (NSSF) passed away at Case Clinic while giving birth, the family members of the deceased have come out to accuse the health facility of negligence.
While speaking at the requiem service that took place at St Andrew’s church, Bukoto on Wednesday, Ritah Nyangoma, late Kiconco’s sister said that there was a lot of negligence indicating that the doctor told them to go to the labor ward but they were not allowed to access it for about two hours yet the heavily pregnant Kiconco was already weak.
According to family preliminary lab tests done at Norvik Hospital indicated that she had an inflamed gall bladder, but the doctors confirmed the baby would survive, advising that they take her to Case Clinic.
“The same doctor from Norvik Hospital found us at Case clinic and ordered another lab test which produced the same results although after a scan it was noticed that there was ‘something’ on her liver, at this time I realized she was gone because even the blood drawn for the test was greenish. From the lab, she couldn’t move. She asked for a wheel chair which the hospital attendants failed to give us. Actually one of them asked me if I had a wheel chair in the car,” Nyangoma mourned, adding that the wheel chair was later brought after she shouted at them.
She added that they were barred from entering for up to about 2 hours and later were referred to the labor ward where the doctors revealed that the kidney, liver and gall bladder had failed and a urinary catheter was connected to aid in urination.