A young woman has gone public with a harrowing account of what she describes as a traumatic and ultimately fatal experience at Scion Hospital, a private health facility located in the Imara Daima area of Nairobi.
The account, which she published through a series of Instagram posts early Thursday morning, has quickly drawn widespread public attention across social media, bringing to light questions about the facility’s handling of emergency maternal care.
In her narration, the woman revealed that her baby died inside her womb in the early hours of Wednesday morning, shortly after 1 a.m., yet she remained unattended for several hours before eventually giving birth later that morning.
She said that staff at the hospital failed to respond with urgency after she raised repeated alarms about the state of her pregnancy, at a point when she had already begun experiencing serious distress.
The situation, she claimed, became increasingly desperate as it became clear to her that the hospital was either unable or unwilling to respond appropriately.
She described being informed that she would be taken into an emergency surgical procedure, a move that was presented as both necessary and urgent.
She alleges that her family was pressured into signing a consent form for surgery while under the impression that the procedure would be performed immediately.
According to her, that assurance turned out to be false.
She believes the hospital misled them into believing a surgical team was available when in fact no surgeon was present at the facility.
She recounted a period of stalling by the hospital during which phone calls were allegedly faked to give the impression that preparations were underway.
The woman’s account continued with a description of what she says happened once hospital staff realized that her condition had deteriorated and that the unborn child had died.
She claims she was left alone on an operating table with no explanation, no staff in attendance, and no support as her condition worsened.
Feeling abandoned, she says she made the decision to flee the hospital.
According to her, she ran out of the facility barefoot, still bleeding, with a catheter attached to her body, and carrying a deceased baby inside her womb.
The story shared on her Instagram quickly gathered traction, drawing hundreds of comments and reactions from social media users.
Many expressed horror at the events described and questioned how such a situation could occur in a registered private hospital.
Others shared stories of difficult or poorly managed experiences at health facilities in Nairobi, suggesting a broader unease about the state of maternal care in the private sector.
At the centre of her account is the belief that the baby’s death was entirely preventable and was the direct result of failures within the hospital.
She maintains that her calls for help were ignored and that the delays that followed were not due to overwhelming demand or lack of resources but rather due to a failure by the hospital to act responsibly and transparently.
She believes the staff panicked once they realized that the situation had gone beyond their control and tried to conceal the fact that they were unprepared to handle it.
The posts do not offer medical documentation or third-party confirmation of events, but the reaction they have generated indicates a high level of engagement from the public. Multiple users in the comment section of her posts have called on regulatory authorities to intervene, while others have urged the woman to pursue legal redress.
By Thursday afternoon, there was no public statement from Scion Hospital in response to the allegations.
Below is a comprehensive narration of the events, based on the account she shared on her personal Instagram page.
“Amaya Leilani 💗 my baby girl died in my womb on Wednesday around 1 a.m. and I gave birth at 9 a.m. She is a person and didn’t deserve to die like that. I really didn’t expect this is how I was going to announce that I have been pregnant this whole time 🥹💔 My heart is broken and I’m so mad I can’t even find the words to describe what I’m feeling. Her life mattered and justice will be served. SCION HOSPITAL IMARA DAIMA KILLED MY BABY DUE TO NEGLIGENCE. I had to run away bleeding, naked, with a urinary catheter between my legs, barefoot, and with a dead baby inside my stomach to save my life because the doctors decided to go and hide and left me on a theatre table alone after realizing they fucked up. These are animals! How can you fake calls, make us sign a fucking theatre performance consent form, wakijua very well hawana any surgeon in the building. Mind you that is after raising so many alarms, questioning if some things were normal. We googled, everything was wrong, but they said wanampeleka emergency theatre hawa washenzi wakijua tu vizuri there was no one. They were stalling us, wakifake calls. Fuck!”
