The patient who was found dead in his ward at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi has been identified.
39-year-old Gilbert Kinyua was brutally murdered in ward 7B on Friday February 7 morning by an unknown assailant.
His lifeless body was found lying on his bed with a slit-neck on Friday morning.
The motive of the murder is yet to be known.
Kinyua had been admitted to KNH on December 11, 2024, due to a cerebral disorder, officials said.
Police who visited the scene said the ward where Kinyua was admitted had another patient who was seeking treatment for the same condition.
The patient was weak and could not explain anything about what transpired before and after the bizarre incident was reported, officials said.
He is among the possible suspects in the murder.
A nurse who was on duty on the night of the incident told detectives that she conducted a routine check within the ward on Friday at 3am., and all was well.
When she returned to the ward where Kinyua was, she found his lifeless body lying cold on the bed, with a slit neck and blood splattered all over the place.
Detectives from the homicide investigations bureau were notified. The team has taken over the probe.
The detectives recovered a blood-stained kitchen knife that had been thrown onto the ground floor through the window near where Gilbert had been killed.
They are seeking answers as to who committed the murder.
The detectives were at the crime scene attempting a reconstruction as they retrieved CCTV footage from the areas surrounding the ward.
The main CCTV cameras at the hospital were not working then.
Patients in the neighbouring wards, as well as the hospital’s management and the family of the deceased, have been interrogated.
The Kenyatta National Hospital, in a statement, said it was saddened by the tragic death of a patient at the facility.
As part of the probe, the statement detailed that the facility is cooperating with law enforcement authorities and has since launched an internal investigation to determine the facts surrounding the incident.
Acting CEO Dr William Sigilai said they are investigating the incident.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the patient’s family during this difficult time.
The Hospital is working closely with law enforcement authorities and has launched an internal investigation to determine the facts surrounding this incident.”
“Kenyatta National Hospital remains committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all.
The safety and well-being of our patients, staff, and visitors are our utmost priority,” he said in a statement.
The incident patients and their relatives at the country’s biggest referral hospital.
It came nine years after a similar killing happened at the same facility.
Cosmas Mutunga Kenyatta, 42, who was found brutally murdered on his hospital bed in November 2015.
Mutunga was admitted to the hospital’s Ward 8C on November 8 and was found dead in the night with stab wounds and one of his eyes gouged out.
He was with an incapacitated and deaf cancer patient at the time he was killed.
Three nurses were on duty on the night of the brutal murder.
The only witness to the murder was a 12-year-old patient who could neither hear, speak or write.
Mutunga, a father-of-four, was killed hours after his family visited him at the hospital and just days after they had donated blood to enable him undergo chemotherapy.
He was hit and stabbed 42 times in an act of violence.
Investigators found out that those who killed Cosmas Mutunga, a former procurement manager at Mada Hotels Limited, were a man and a woman.
A postmortem report indicated that Mutunga was badly battered, his skull broken, eyes gouged out and one of his legs shattered in a sad episode that exposed security lapses at the region’s largest referral facility.
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