After the recent Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) case of patient mix up, it has emerged that more faulty surgeries have been performed in hospitals around Nairobi.
One Benjamin Mwangangi is one such patient who had to undergo two consecutive faulty surgeries that led to his demise.
Mr Mwangangi was admitted for surgery after reporting that he had trouble urinating. The surgery ended up with a bacterial infection after the surgeon allegedly let his knife slip and puncture Mwangangi.
A second operation was then scheduled to correct the mistake and it was performed by the same doctor. This operation was also erroneous and led to Mwangangi’s death.
Following his death, a case was filed by his family where they demanded compensation from the hospital.
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The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Boards (MPDB), through whom the complaint was lodged, “found respondents culpable of professional negligence and ordered them to initiate mediation with a view of compensating the appellants".
Unfortunately, the complaint was lodged in vain as the High Court threw out the suit because it came in late and this decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal.
According to a report by the Standard, Cyrus Kanyi was another victim of careless surgical attendance after the injuries he sustained in an accident were mismanaged in the emergency room.
When he put forward a case against the hospital where he was treated, he was awarded Sh4.8 Million after a court ruling was made in his favour on October 6, 2017.
It was discovered that Kanyi had to undergo eight different operations that put him in a worse state than he initially arrived at the hospital in.
In a less triumphant court case, a lady lost an appeal for Sh 2.1 Million compensation for what she claimed to have gone through during an operation to unblock her fallopian tubes.
An infection was detected nine days after the surgery and the doctors' response was to allegedly prescribe her with painkillers.
According to the 2018 MPDB report, surgeons are the third worst medical practitioners in Kenya when it comes to cases of reported malpractice representing 13 percent of all such incidents.
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