A 26-year-old Nairobi Woman succumbed to stage four liver cancer after doctors at a health centre located at Nairobi’s Lucky Summer Estate misdiagnosed her claiming she had brucellosis and ulcers.
Violet Judith Awuor took a cocktail of drugs for months before a CT scan, an ultrasound and a biopsy at Nairobi's Avenue Hospital revealed she had stage four liver cancer.
In one of her Facebook posts, Awuor narrated, "I took drugs for different diseases that I never had till my gall bladder was strained. This made my bile duct to constrict. Bile from the liver could not reach my stomach where it was supposed to be drained."
"After the misdiagnosis, my daughter continued throwing up. She had a high fever and severe stomach pain. She was also jaundiced and her eyes were yellow," Awuor's mother Grace Aoko added.
Awuor’s gall bladder could not store bile properly thus doctors had to insert a temporary catheter to drain the liquid from her stomach.
“The first catheter cost Sh50,000, and we paid before the surgery. It came off three days later and the doctor told us to raise Sh400,000 to get a permanent one. That was beyond our means,” Ms Aoko highlighted.
A month after she was diagnosed with cancer, Awuor’s condition grew worse. She was placed in the high dependency unit, where she died.
Her body is still lying in the mortuary at Avenue Hospital, which is demanding Sh1 Million in bills.
