The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has said that the late Baby Travis who presented at the hospital with a fork jembe was hit by his father and not his little brother as his mother alleged.
According to KNH chief executive officer Evanson Kamuri, it was not possible and practical that Baby Travis Maina was struck by his six year old brother with the fork Jembe.
Kamuri said that the injury indicated that it could have been the result of domestic squabbles between the mother Judy Muthoni and the baby’s father.
“It is an issue that requires to be investigated by another body. When we informed the woman about the death of her son, she stated about how her baby had been killed by her husband,” said Kamuri said when he appeared before the Senate Health Committee.
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“The mother needs to come clean about what happened. We are very sorry for what happened but we have also been asking ourselves questions. The injury was severe and it could not have been inflicted by other children while playing.”
Kamuri added that the baby could not have been taken straight to theatre for operation because he had lost too much blood.
“We first needed to give him blood. And being a baby, that process is much slower because, if we could have given him too much blood at once, there was a risk of cardiac arrest,” he said.
