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Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is on the headlines yet again for the wrong reasons
This time, a woman is accusing the facility of mishandling her Caesarean section. Susan Nekesa said she delivered twin girls at the facility on January 26th through Caesarean procedure.
However, after the surgical procedure, her stomach became swollen and she began experiencing excruciating pain. So much was the pain that she could barely speak. Lying on a hospital bed, a seemingly hurting Nekesa narrated her ordeal to a located TV station.
She said: “Naomba Mungu memory yangu isipotee… (I am praying that I do not lose my memory).
“When I came to see her, I found that she had a swollen stomach,” says Evelyn Anindo, Nekesa's sister.
Anindo added: “Her stomach was also very hot and she could not talk. We communicated using signs.”
After she informed KNH medical staff of her condition, she was taken back to the theatre, where doctors admitted to making a blunder during the CS.
“It was discovered that the surgery was done wrongly,” says Robert Sitati, Nekesa’s husband.
“A portion of the small intestines, like 50cm, was outside the chamber where it was supposed to be,” he says.
To correct the mistake, the medics removed the affected part of Nekesa’s intestines and left a small opening to allow her pass stool through a colostomy bag.
To add salt on the injury, on Tuesday, the family received shocking news that one of their twins had passed away.
“They said that my child had a hole in the heart,” says distressed Nekesa.
However, Nekesa’s husband said that one of KHN staff member confessed to him that their child chocked on milk.
“Someone told me that the person who fed my child was not very experienced,” says Sitati.
The family decried how the hospital has neglected Nekesa, even after causing her the pain.
“Nobody is taking care of her,” says Evelyn.
“When the colostomy bag gets full, it is up to her [the patient] to struggle to the bathroom to empty it.”
“They have kept me here for so long…I have been persevering…with the hope than one day I will go and see my children,” Nekesa says.
The incident comes in the backdrop of another surgical mishap at the facility involving two brain patients. In the case, a brain surgery was conducted on the wrong patient.
Incidents of rape on new mothers and child theft at KNH have also been reported in the past few months.
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I am in the medical field and have seen how smoothly procedures are carried out in the USA. Any person in the medical field want to organize an operation “saidia wananchi” with me? We volunteer for one month moving from county to county helping these people. We will need cash and l am ready to create a gofundme. I am serious and l want honest contribution to this idea. I have access to mobile/portable x-ray machines that l can take with me.
They need to clean up KNH even if it means hiring a foreigner as a CEO. Too much mess over there.
KNH is too big it needs to be decentralised. The whole of African continent we are suffering from poor management in country governments, Banks, schools, hospitals, actually all institutions. Now if you combine the size of the hospital and departments, the lack of enough doctors,nurses, technicians and diagnostic equipments, and lack of proper management and supervision, and plus stress of dealing with sick people (you do absorp their energy, so you people who are married to care givers pray for them) it becomes one big mess. We need people well trained in management, my question is where do we as kenyans find this. Those who have studied business administration and management in the west do not get to practice it in those countries which would help .The western world has conspired to not allow this to retard Africa progress.How many africans or black americans do you find running fortune 500 hundred companies.Since this opportunity is being denied, what ever degrees you happen to study please include business administration/management and also start businesses which ever part of the world you happen to be in b/c we need to learn how to run and manage industries. We do pray for the success of Africa, yes the devil is a liar!!!
Ati raping new mothers? Horrific ... I can't imagine the excruciating pain undergone ....
I think every blunder made should be make public because that is how some of these imitations of doctors will be exposed. Perhaps diasporians in the medical field should work closely with medics in Kenya to raise the stardard of care because something is a miss big time. That mother is lucky to be alive. As for baby choking on milk, I'm shaking my head.