Chiromo Hospital Group founder and chairman, Dr. Frank Njenga, has damaged his silence following the homicide of Toto Touch organisation founder and nurse Dr. Susan Kamengere Njoki.
This comes following an post-mortem report, which revealed that Njoki was strangled to dying at Chiromo Hospital Group, Braeside department.
The postmortem examination, carried out on the Nairobi City Mortuary on Tuesday, July 22, revealed that Njoki had suffered trauma according to guide strangulation.
The findings contradicted earlier claims that her dying was linked to a psychiatric episode or medical problems.
Following the post-mortem report, Dr. Njenga, in a press release on Wednesday, expressed sorrow and regret over Njoki’s dying, terming it a second of reckoning for the power and psychological healthcare within the nation.
Known to Njoki personally, the Chiromo Hospital Group founder emphasised that transparency and reality have to be prioritised to make sure these culpable are held accountable.
“Truth is paramount to all different issues on this case. We take care of the susceptible, and now we should show it when it’s hardest to take action. First, I lengthen my deepest condolences to her household and to everybody grieving this loss. A superb younger girl recognized to me personally died in our care. That calls for greater than sorrow. It calls for reality,” stated Dr. Njenga.
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Chiromo Hospital Group founder speaks on Toto Touch CEO Susan Njoki’s homicide
The famend psychiatrist additional acknowledged that Chiromo Hospital Group is totally cooperating with investigators and is conducting an inside assessment of its operational and procedural protocols within the wake of the incident.
According to him, the hospital is actively engaged in self-introspection and assessment of its operational and procedural mandates.
Dr. Njenga, on the similar time, hailed Njoki’s voice in psychological well being advocacy and described her as a dedicated skilled whose legacy have to be protected even in dying.
“Dr. Toto’s voice of advocacy and take care of these with psychological well being deserves to be heard, even now. The greatest manner we honour her is by guaranteeing that the reality surrounding the circumstances of her dying is established in an open and clear method. As one who labored along with her in psychological well being advocacy, my sense of loss is each private {and professional}. I hope and pray that her work is not going to have been in useless,” the Chiromo Hospital Group founder added.
The hospital had earlier acknowledged it was cooperating with detectives from Kabete Police Station and had preserved all information related to the case.
Last moments
The late Njoki, who had a documented historical past of psychological well being therapy, was on July 15 allegedly forcibly faraway from her dwelling in Kileleshwa, Nairobi, by a number of males who injected her with unknown substances towards her will.
Audio recordings shared with the media captured her remaining moments, the place she pleaded with the people who restrained and injected her.
Her household insists that she was in secure psychological well being and making ready for a global job interview, stating that the pressured intervention lacked consent.
Following the post-mortem report, Njoki’s sister and authorized representatives referred to as for a full judicial inquest into the circumstances surrounding her dying. This violent discovering has prompted a proper inquiry by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The late Toto founder’s husband, Alloise Ngure, who has been listed as an individual of curiosity, was arrested and launched on money bail final Friday.
