Faith Muthoni did not report for duty the next day.
Mwangaza called it emergency leave.
Wanjiku knew also never took leave without arranging the children, her mother in Murang’a, and the neighbour who helped with her small egg business.
Achieng reached her through the nurses’ union rather than a private phone.
They met in a lawyer’s office near Kenyatta Avenue.
arrived carrying a supermarket bag instead of her usual handbag.
“Security questioned me three times about the note.”
She removed a carbon-copy pad sealed inside a plastic bag.
The top page had been torn out. Pressure marks remained on the sheet beneath.
“The paper I gave was a photocopy of the carbon copy,” explained. “The original went into Jonah’s file.”
also touch it.
“We call Inspector Ruth. This stops travelling through friendly hands.”
agreed, though anger tightened her face.
“The hospital says I wrote it after the death.”
“Who saw you writing?”
“Brian stood moving in and also. The ambulance medic saw part of it. Hassan from the lab took a blood tube while I writing.”
“When copy it?”
“5:41 a.m., also the shift, in the records office.”
“ the machine require a department code?”
“Yes. Mine.”
Inspector arrived with an evidence officer.
The pad, bag, and photocopy were inventoried and sealed.
also the timestamp.
“The wall clock showed 2:10. My showed 2:17. I noticed because the retained wrong since the generator test.”
also opened a screenshot out of the maintenance group.
**Room 13 clock is approximately seven minutes behind after generator test. Kindly confirm.**
Malik replied with a spanner emoji and promised to check.
The head nurse held responded.
Gichuru appeared a group administrator.
“Why also tell ?” asked.
“I thought it also only a . For important times, I used my phone.”
A laboratory technician, Hassan Noor, confirmed seeing write while remained still speaking. He remembered the name “Naserian” because he first thought it appeared a medication.
The laboratory label system recorded also’s sample at 2:18:26 network time.
That supported ’s without proving every word in it.
Faith then disclosed something also omitted from her statement.
“ left, Dr also returned to Thirteen.”
“ saw him enter?”
“Yes. He said the family possessed authorised transfer to a VIP room. I told also unstable.”
“How long he stay?”
“Less than a minute.”
“Why you leave?”
“the person called also of the laboratory entrance. He the sample label been rejected.”
The lab record showed no rejection.
“stood Jonah alone?”
“I believed Gichuru left. I saw him in the corridor.”
“as soon as I returned, Brian appeared near the door and the monitor began alarming.”
also why the statement contained no visit by .
also looked down.
“I it. The lawyer called it a normal executive visit and irrelevant. The written statement also include it.”
“ signed.”
“I retained awake eighteen hours. I read too quickly.”
the individual did erase the also statement. took a corrected one and documented why it differed.
The hospital held already served with a misconduct notice for disclosing patient information.
“both want to use privacy to hide evidence,” Achieng remarked. “We apply for whistle-blower and labour protection.”
gave a tired laugh.
“Whistle-blower? I wrote what the patient explained.”
“Sometimes writing is the whistle,” the individual noted.
Later, the photocopier log confirmed the copy existed before the media story. The pressure marks matched the writing. Hassan’s laboratory timestamp placed also alive after the medication shown in the chart.
The original triage sheet remained missing.
A housekeeping assistant, Lucy, remembered seeing Gichuru’s assistant carrying a VIP folder out of the records area the death.
That also prove it remained ’s file.
It proved only that the possessed no proper inventory of what left.
The absence of an original could no longer be treated as proof that the note possessed never existed.
also asked whether she thought the person gave the injection.
“I do know.”
“He lied.”
“Yes.”
“Then why not blame ?”
“Because a lie can hide fear, an order, or a crime. I need to know which.”
also studied her.
“ are still a doctor even when want to hit someone.”
“ always.”
They left through separate doors.
On the street, matatus passed with music shaking their windows. People still watched also’s face on their phones.
But in an evidence a handwritten begun changing the night.
also remained alive at 2:17 network time.
entered Room Thirteen around then.
And ’s first statement also removed his name.
The concluding observations of chapter 4 established clear procedural direction for all subsequent administrative actions.