Switched At Birth: Mother Given A Dead Baby At Pumwani Searching For Biological Child 6 Years Later
This year, Consolata Mumbi will be celebrating the sixth birthday of her firstborn child.
A visit to the delivery ward of Pumwani Maternity Hospital in January 2018 turned into a nightmare for Mumbi, who does not know where her biological child is.
“The doctors decided to conduct cesarean section surgery on me. In the theatre I met four individuals, they operated on me and showed me a baby. But it took time for them to show me the baby, who happened to be cold and lifeless,” she recounts the painful ordeal.
According to Mumbi, who lives in the Umoja 3 area in Nairobi, the nurses who attended to her informed her that her child had died during childbirth and made her sign a document indicating that she delivered a still baby. She stayed in the hospital for three days before she was discharged.
Her husband Daniel Githui believed that his wife had not given birth to a stillborn, their suspicion arose after they were presented with cold and pale baby moments after she was removed from her mother’s uterus.
After hours of frantic search for their newborn and no help from the facility, Githui reported the matter to the police and was referred to the City Mortuary.
DNA samples were then collected, and a test was conducted at the Government’s Chemist Department on February 19, 2018.
The test results showed the dead child’s DNA did not match those of the parents. An indication that the couple could have been given the wrong baby.
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“Based on the above findings, Consolata Mumbi And Daniel Mumbi are excluded as the biological mother and father of baby Consolata Mumbi,” a conclusion by Government analyst J.K Kimani in July 2019 reads in documents seen by PoliticalPulseChat.
Once tests had confirmed that they were not the biological parents of the child their desperate long search for their missing child began.
“The doctor and the nurses who attended to me during the CS tricked us into believing that our baby had died,” Mumbi says.
After she was discharged from the hospital, the couple kept going to the hospital in search of their baby, but they were brushed off.
Following the DNA results, the Kenya Medical Practitioner and Dentist Council excluded itself from the matter citing it as a criminal case.
The board officially wrote to the family noting that the issues raised are criminal in nature as they related to a suspected swapping of newborns at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital.
“It is therefore our considered opinion that this matter is best handled by the directorate of criminal investigation under the provision of the penal code,” states the letter from KMPDC.
Six years later the parents do not know where their child is and hope to be reunited one day.
“I know my baby is Alive, I wait for the day that we will be reunited. I have suffered so much because of what they did to my family. I still have the clothes I had bought for the baby as a reminder that one day we shall be reunited,” she says.
Switched At Birth: Mother Given A Dead Baby At Pumwani Searching For Biological Child 6 Years Later
