An 11-year-old girl from Molo, Nakuru County went into an eye surgery at the PCEA Kikuyu Mission hospital in Kiambu County on December 22, 2018 only to leave with missing teeth.
According to Martha Wanjiku, the girl's mother, her daughter, Caren, had accompanied her to the field when a panga pieced her eye.
“Caren was with Nyambura cutting grass and a cow began moving towards them. So Caren bent to pick a stick to chase the cow, in the process of bending the panga she was using pierced her,” narrated Wanjiku.
According to a report by Citizen TV, Caren and the mother proceeded to Nakuru Provincial General Hospital to seek treatment. However, they were referred to PCEA Kikuyu hospital due to lack of doctors to perform the cornea repair surgery.
The patient went into surgery at 4:30 pm but took too long. This made her mother anxious and when she inquired from a nurse, Wanjiku was accused of giving her daughter food before surgery, which complicated the procedure.
‘I did not give her any food. I only gave her a slice of bread and tea as I had been instructed,” Wanjiku narrated
The doctor told her that her daughter had not gained consciousness as expected and therefore needed to be taken to the Intensive Care Unit.
As fate would have it, the available bed at the hospital had been saved for a patient who had a more complicated case. Therefore, they were transferred to another hospital.
“My daughter has no teeth, they didn’t tell us why they removed them yet she was going into the theatre for eye surgery. Now I have a bill of Ksh2 million from all these complications,” commented the mother.
Doctors at the mission hospital are insisting that they did everything by the book. However, Caren’s mother is still demanding justice.
