This archive report was first published on 8 July 2021.
On July 8, 2021, Joseph Mwangi, a form three student from Kagumo Secondary School in Murang'a, visited the Maragua hospital for a tetanus injection after sustaining minor injuries from a boda boda accident.
However, two days after the injection, Mwangi's left hand and leg started swelling, prompting him to return to the hospital for further examination.
Despite waiting for over four hours, Mwangi was unable to receive medical attention, and the medical report card was taken away by a medical officer.
When Mwangi's deputy head teacher, James Njeri, accompanied him back to the hospital, the medics claimed that the student's medical card could not be found.
According to Njeri, a medical officer at the facility revealed that the dispensary did not have the tetanus vaccine for a number of years and that it's unclear what the student was injected with.
Mwangi's mother, Ann Wanjiru, has sought medical attention from a private hospital and was referred to Murang'a district hospital and later to Kijabe mission hospital for specialized treatment, but the cost is too high for the family to meet.
