Doctors at the Karen Hospital have ruled out the possibility of a heart attack that could have led to the death of the late Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery.
A senior manager who sought for anonymity told The Star that doctors who received the CS have said that it was not a heart attack as has been speculated.
He also said that the CS was already dead by the time he arrived at the hospital and again; he did not drive himself as reports had it.
“The doctors received the late at around 1:00 a.m and he was already dead. Since our profession does not allow doctors to assume, they run all the emergency procedures amid efforts to resuscitate him but unfortunately he was already past that,” said the manager.
Further, he said going by assessment by doctors, the CS had no signs of sickness.
Asked if it was food poisoning, the manager remained non-committal saying that: “Doctors will not look foolish to say it was food poisoning or heart attack only for postmortem to say otherwise.”
He said that his wife, Helen Nkaissery confirmed that her late husband had no signs of sickness.
“The doctors tried to interrogate his wife but she said the late arrived in the house at around 10pm. Had a little conversation and planned that they would leave the house at around 9am the following day for usual activities before they retired to bed at 11pm.”
He later collapsed and was taken to the hospital by his wife, two security guards and two friends whom Helen had spent the entire day with.
He died aged 67 years.
On Saturday, Opposition boss Raila Odinga called on government to speedily conduct a post mortem and tell Kenyans what killed the CS.