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On December 14, last year, Mr Steve Opar and his wife Wendy Audrey left their son in the care of their house help at St Mary’s Estate in Nakuru Town, as they usually did.
Mr Opar, a lawyer, was in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, when he received a call from a neighbour at around 5pm.
“The caller told me that my son was dying after choking on food.” Confused and shaken, he asked the neighbour to take the child to the War Memorial Hospital, as he sped back to Nakuru.
“Since he was my only child, Baby Jayden [Blessing] meant everything to me. As I drove back, I called my wife and told her to also rush to the hospital,” he said.
On reaching the hospital, Mrs Opar was told her baby had been pronounced dead on arrival.
“I did not even get to celebrate his first birthday, which was in a month’s time. It was the most painful moment of my life,” she said.
Baby dies as 'maid watches television'
What strikes me as a bit odd that the neighbor called to say the baby was dying choking on food. In the time that it took to make that phone call and transport to the hospital something could have been done.
Mr Opar, a lawyer, was in Nyahururu, Laikipia County, when he received a call from a neighbour at around 5pm.
“The caller told me that my son was dying after choking on food.” Confused and shaken, he asked the neighbour to take the child to the War Memorial Hospital, as he sped back to Nakuru.
“Since he was my only child, Baby Jayden [Blessing] meant everything to me. As I drove back, I called my wife and told her to also rush to the hospital,” he said.
On reaching the hospital, Mrs Opar was told her baby had been pronounced dead on arrival.
“I did not even get to celebrate his first birthday, which was in a month’s time. It was the most painful moment of my life,” she said.
Baby dies as 'maid watches television'
What strikes me as a bit odd that the neighbor called to say the baby was dying choking on food. In the time that it took to make that phone call and transport to the hospital something could have been done.
