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Ken Walibora Inquest: Doctors Detail Final Moments to Save Late Author
The author was alleged to have been knocked down by a speeding motorist along Landhies Road near Muthurwa Market on April 10, 2020.
The late journalist and author Ken Walibora Waliaula died while the doctors were trying to save his life in the resuscitation room where critical patients are admitted, the doctor has told the court.
While testifying before the Milimani Principal Magistrate Paul Mutai in the inquest to determine his death, Doctor Stella Rono, working at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), told the court that they took necessary actions to save the life of the author, but unfortunately, he did not make it.
“We tried as much as we could to save his life, but he succumbed to the injuries,” Rono told the court.
He explained to the court that the deceased was admitted to the facility while alive but unconscious and identified as unknown.
He was received in emergency entry, where critical patients are received before he was placed in the resuscitation room and placed on oxygen to support breathing.
The witness was corroborated by two nurses from the same hospital who testified before the same court.
Penninah Ndoti Kathii testified that on the material day when the deceased was taken to the facility, she was the one who received the victim.
“I was on duty at the casualty, emergency department, where I received the deceased, who was unidentified, and immediately gave him painkillers, anticonvulsant drugs, and dressed the wounds to stop bleeding before taking him to the resuscitation room,” Kathii told the court.
She stated that the patient had physical injuries – a broken leg and hand, and had a deep cut on the right hand between the index finger and the thumb, an injury on the right jaw, and some teeth were missing.
They were informed by the officers who accompanied him in the ambulance that the patient was collected at Landhies Road near Machakos Country Bus in Nairobi.
Another nurse, Antony Ngaruiya, testified that he was on duty at the resuscitation Room B, where the patient was taken.
In a bid to prove the effort they made to save the patient, he explained to the court that the resuscitation room is like a small ICU where doctors and nurses are always monitoring the critical patients to salvage their lives.
“Medical officers are always in the said room monitoring the patients who are in critical condition,” Ngaruiya said.
He told the court that the patient died the following day after the accident.
The author was alleged to have been knocked down by a speeding motorist along Landhies Road near Muthurwa Market on April 10, 2020.
The vehicle that was alleged to have knocked down the deceased was an Isuzu bus from Double M Connections company, registration number KBR 949S, which was held at Kamukunji police station.
