Police in Jinja is investigating circumstances under which a mother and her newly born baby died in the hands of 4 health workers.
21-year-old Leilah Nagambaki arrived at the Nile crescent Clinic along the cathedral road in Jinja city on Wednesday afternoon with labor pains that soon turned complicated.
Upon her arrival, Nagambaki was told by the health workers to wait for the doctor who was out for lunch and expected to return by 4 pm.
The health workers include the Clinic in Charge, Sumaya Namubiru, Eliphaz Katende, laboratory technician, Suleiman Taya, an enrolled nurse and a student nurse, Isaac Kwikiriza.
Preliminary findings indicate that when the doctor arrived and checked the pregnant woman, he suggested she goes for a caesarean operation because she couldn’t push the baby naturally.
Daniel Kirunda the doctor and the 4 health workers went to the theatre for the operation and promised to save both the mother and unborn child.
Majid Aule the father to the deceased says the doctor first informed them around 5:00 pm that the baby didn’t make it and again showed up at 6:30 pm to inform them the Mother had also died.
Aule regretted not taking his daughter to Jinja Regional Referral Hospital for better management after he was informed she wouldn’t have a normal birth.
Ngako, the Kiira Region Police spokesperson, says they are hunting for Daniel Kirunda who allegedly conducted the operation.
