On a normal occasion when you walk into a hospital ward, you may not expect to see a cat.
At the Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital in Nairobi, however, as nurses, doctors and other staff go about their business, a brown cat trots around the ward and disappears under one of the beds at a unit housing new-borns.
Nobody here appears bothered by the feline ‘doing its rounds’. In a normal fully equipped hospital, when a patient needing emergency care is brought in, one would expect a gurney or a stretcher to be rushed to get the patient to the emergency room for medical staff to save them.
One would also expect quality service at a facility with the status of a referral hospital named after a former first lady.
But as The Saturday Standard found out, Mama Lucy Kibaki Referral Hospital, located between Umoja-II and Komarock estates, 11 Kilometers East of Nairobi, faces teething challenges. Some patients say the facility neither lives up to its name nor its status.
