This archive report was first published on 31 October 2019.
On October 31, 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta's mother, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, was finally cleared to visit former head of state Daniel Moi, who was admitted in critical condition at the Nairobi Hospital.
Visiting Moi at the hospital ward had been restricted to his close family members, including Gideon Moi, who had been closely keeping an eye on Mzee, said to be suffering from lung failure.
Initially, doctors had objected to a family proposal to have the ailing former president airlifted for intensified treatment abroad due to his fragile status.
Lung failure, also known as respiratory failure, is a condition in which the level of oxygen in the blood becomes dangerously low or the level of carbon dioxide in the blood becomes dangerously high.
