{"id":232383,"date":"2026-05-05T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-hospital-board-member-job-obwaka-died-of-cardiac-arrest-autopsy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:52:00","slug":"kenya-nairobi-hospital-board-member-job-obwaka-died-of-cardiac-arrest-autopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-hospital-board-member-job-obwaka-died-of-cardiac-arrest-autopsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nairobi Hospital Board Member Job Obwaka Died of Cardiac Arrest &#8211; &#8211; Autopsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 A postmortem examination has confirmed that renowned gynecologist and board member of The Nairobi Hospital, Job Obwaka, died of cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Family spokesperson Joseph Ndungu said the autopsy findings established cardiac arrest as the cause of death, providing clarity following the medic&#8217;s sudden passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">&#8220;The autopsy confirms that Dr. Obwaka died of cardiac arrest,&#8221; Ndungu stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He added that while the primary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A postmortem examination has confirmed that renowned gynecologist and board member of The Nairobi Hospital, Job Obwaka, died of cardiac arrest. Family spokesperson Joseph Ndungu said the autopsy findings established cardiac arrest as the cause of death, providing clarity following the medic&#8217;s sudden passing. &#8220;The autopsy confirms that Dr. Obwaka died of cardiac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6414,27785,6727,21528,5649,6362,9679,4688,430,6483,259,257,54339,254],"class_list":["post-232383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-autopsy","tag-board","tag-cardiac","tag-died","tag-hospital","tag-job","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-member","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-obwaka","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}