Most of the beds in the wards were empty. The mortuary building appeared rather crowded with more caskets carried out of the building and more people approaching the building to pick their relatives’ bodies. Efforts to get the officials of the hospital for further clarifications failed after the Secretary of Amana hospital Nsubili Njela said they had been urgently summoned to the Regional Commissioner’s office.
“Nina siku tatu hapa sijapata tiba yoyote,” alilalamika mgonjwa mmoja aliyejitambulisha kwa jina la Saidi Ally. Taarifa iliyotolewa na Ofisi ya Uhusiano(tunayo nakala yake) imesema mpaka juzi kulikuwa na wagonjwa 811 hospitalini hapo, lakini waandishi wetu walishuhudia wengine wakigeuza na kurudi walipotoka.