A young widower from Madogo, Tana River County is appealing to the government and other well-wishers to help him raise over shs 1.2 million to clear a hospital bill for his premature six months old baby who survived after the doctors conducted a C-section to safe her mother who unfortunately passed on due to Covid-19 related complications.
The baby girl who tested negative to Covid-19 is currently in an incubator at Aga Khan Hospital in Mombasa. The father, Maulid Osman Ndalana 24 together with friends struggles to foot his late wife bill of shs 750,000 who was buried in accordance with Islamic burial rites.When his wife, Nuru Ibrahim aged 28 started complaining of headaches, fever and chest pains in early July, he went for over-the-counter drugs for her on the nearby clinics thinking it was due to her pregnancy.Her condition deteriorated as days went by prompting him to take her to Mariakani Sub County hospital, where she tested positive for Covid-19. Ndalana and his two children however tested negative for the virus.“My late wife tested positive for covid-19 while the children and I tested negative. We went for home-based care as she took her medication and the doctors advised us to isolate her in another room at home,” Maulid says.Having not seeing improvement on her health for a few days, Maulid decided to take her to Aga Khan Hospital in Mombasa where the doctors said that the virus had already weakened her lungs. “According to the doctors, the virus had destroyed her lungs to the extent that she could not breathe without oxygen support machine. They took her to the ICU,” he said Maulid says that the doctors advised him that the only way to save the mother was by carrying out a C-section surgery to remove the baby so that they can treat the mother more efficiently.
“The doctors said that they could not give her strong medication to fight the virus because of the pregnancy. I agreed and signed the papers for her to go to surgery and have the baby removed so that we save her,” he said the doctors successfully removed the baby and put her on incubation where she still is but unfortunately lost the mother.“I wanted to save my wife but God had His plans. He gave me the baby who is still at the hospital in Mombasa,”Moulid appleals to well-wishers, the government and all Kenyans to help him to rise over shs 1.2 million medical bill that is still accumulating at the hospital so that he can move the baby to Garissa general hospital, which is cheaper, and can have neighbors stay with her as he takes care of other children.Kenyans of goodwill can help Maulid through M-Pesa number 07174057