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At 1.30 pm, a pregnant woman due for delivery was wheeled to the theatre at Kitengela Sub-County Hospital. The patient had been booked in as an emergency. As the surgeon placed her on the operating table, ready to deliver her, hundreds of armed goons stormed the hospital. The doctor was terrified - a baby to be delivered, a mother’s life to be saved and her own personal safety.
“I was frightened. I could not move,” the doctor narrated her encounter to The Standard on Tuesday. “I was scared. I had no option but to save a life. I could not leave the theatre. I fought my fears and continued to operate on the patient. Leaving her meant her bleeding to death, and the baby could not survive,” she recalls.
Swiftly, she tightly closed the theatre doors and continued to operate on the patient. The nurse who was in the theatre lost concentration, traumatised by the act of the goons breaking into the theatre.
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