Meet the Teen Who Fought Hard To Keep Alex Madaga Alive For 18 Hours (Photo)

About a week ago, as story broke that showed us just how badly off our health sector is.

Mr. Alex Madaga now known as the ‘ambulance’ patient was involved in a grave accident but was not able to get help despite visiting 4 hospitals. This was because some of the private hospitals turned him away as they had that ‘no money no admission’ kind of policy and others such as Kikuyu Hospital did not have an ICU, while Nairobi women’s ICU was fully occupied and the ICU at Kenyatta hospital was full.

The accident survivor was then forced to spend 18 hours in an ambulance waiting to be admitted and once he was admitted he ended up on life support with a blood clot in the brain.

His valiant fight for his life came to a sad end at 1.50pm on Friday after his heart gave away much to the heartache of many Kenyans who were praying and rooting for him.

And now it has emerged that Madaga’s valiant fight in the ambulance would not have been possible without the help of one teenager.

Brian Ochieng Odhiambo, a student at St John Ambulance who works for Swift Paramedics Ambulance services spent 18 hours in the ambulance taking care of Alex. And he shared details of the 18 hour ordeal with Nation Newspaper.

Brian Photo | Gerald Anderson | Nation Media Group 

Brian reveals that Madaga could have survived saying that “He had been hit at the lower back of his head… He was stable and I knew he would survive if we got him to hospital for the critical care he required.”

Unfortunately due to the fact that he did not receive medical care speedily, Madaga passed away.

“I hope this incident is a wake-up call to the Ministry of Health over the state of health in the country” Brian told The Nation.

“It broke my heart when I heard he died. He would have survived.” he solemnly concluded.