CODE BLACK!..NOT THE TELEVISION SERIES.

Yesterday, Meru county lost a formidable striker by the name of Denis Dos Santos. What makes this post hard to write is that the system killed him, I will explain in English how this happened, and also the lessons we as a society should take home at the end of this read.

At 7:11pm, Wyclef Muthomi called me, I could tell by the tone of his voice that something was amiss, he told me that Dos Santos needed emergency medical care because of a horrific road traffic accident. So Wyclef drove like an Indian taxi driver to Meru Teaching & Referral Hospital. They carried Dos Santos into the crowded emergency wing where they were told there was no doctor to serve them and save the young man who was coughing up blood, at 8:13pm Wyclef called me in a shaky voice and told me that no doctor was in the vicinity but the visibly overworked nurse was frantically trying to help, it was apparent that Dos Santos was not okay; Wyclef has worked for the Red Cross as an emergency staff for years. He knew that the young striker needed emergency care immediately!!.

Dos Santos needed to be admitted to an I.C.U, sadly the Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital I.C. U beds were all occupied. The only other hospital in the great and rich Meru county with an I.C. U ward is Saint Theresa Hospital Kiirua.... but to book an I.C.U bed at this hospital one needs to pay 100,000ksh upfront in cash!!!.

Wyclef raised the money... but before they could arrange for Dos Santos' transportation to Kiirua, the young man choked to death on his own blood in Wyclef's hands I believe as a county and country we need to invest a lot in the provision of quality healthcare; let us have more functional I.C.U beds, let us hire more healthcare workers, let us invest in specialized training of our health workers- let the county government sponsor or at least give study leaves to health workers to enrol for specialized training, let's equip all sub-county hospitals with not only hospital equipment but adequate staff to help ease congestion at the Meru Teaching & Referral Hospital.

Dos Santos was a final year engineering student at The Meru National Polytechnic. He played for Gachanka FC and was a top scorer in the Meru Youth Soccer league and was being scouted by a top Eastern African soccer team, I'm reliably informed that he was to ink a lucrative deal with the top tier African soccer team.

Rest in peace Dos, I firmly believe if our politicians really committed to improving our lives, Dos Santos could be alive today. Rest in peace champion, the system and politicians failed you.

#mwobobiasroundup sends its condolences to the family, Gachanka FC Family and friends of Dos Santos, I pray God gives you the strength to bear this immense loss.

In the meantime, someone educate me why one needs to pay 100,000ksh upfront to book an I.C.U bed. Does it mean if you can not raise the money you will die as the doctors watch?.

To the middle-class, if you, or your spouse, or your children land in an emergency room in Meru county and need life-saving emergency care, you will die!!!... let that sink in!.