Former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has supported the recent suspension of Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lily Koros after a head surgery saga.
Speaking on Tuesday during an interview on NTV, Khalwale, who is a former medical practitioner, indicated that Koros as the CEO ought to take the blame for the political and administrative failures at the institution.
Khalwale indicated that one of the failures of the suspended CEO was unnecessarily exposing patients to radioactive material by using a radiotherapy machine that was allegedly written off 19 years back.
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Besides, the former legislator equally found fault with Koros over alleged incidents of rape against mothers on their way to and from the Newborn Unit reportedly carried out by morticians.
According to Khalwale, the maternal mortality rate at KNH was very high considering that the hospital is the topmost referral facility in the country, hence the expectations for top notch services.
Khalwale also cited incidents of stealing of babies from the facility, including the recently stolen twin boy, as another justification for the failure on the part of KNH management led by the CEO.
The epitome of these failures, according to Khalwale, is the confusion in theatre management that saw doctors open the skull of the wrong patient under controversial circumstances.
In his view, the CEO had failed to put the appropriate administrative systems and procedures in place hence should be held accountable and the lead Surgeon in the head surgery saga exonerated.
Elsewhere, Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union (KMPDU) Secretary-General Dr Ouma Oluga expressed dissatisfaction with the suspension of the CEO.
Oluga stated that the incidents at KNH provided an appropriate forum to table a debate on the real challenges facing the institution.
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In his view, the hospital was a victim of general failures in the medical sector including understaffing, unnecessary referrals resulting in patient influx, corruption, and poor resource allocation.
