A hospital in Nairobi’s Pangani area is on the spot after an 8-year-old boy died in what the family claimed to be a botched surgery.
The eight-year-old, Peter Kago, was wheeled to the operating room at 7 am and was set to undergo corrective surgery to reattach his right thigh bone.
Standard Digital reported that the operation never took place, and Kago went into a coma while on the operation table at Ladnan Hospital, in what is suspected to be an overdose of anaesthesia.
“From what my wife overheard, he was injected twice with the anesthesia,” his father, Paul Njoroge, lamented.
Reports further disclosed that the boy started having convulsions, seizures and then later fell into a coma.
The family revealed that Kago never woke up again and was declared dead six days later at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
Kago broke his leg while leaving church on May 12 2019, just a few meters away from their home in Kayole, around Matopeni Police Station.
“I partly blame the contractor. He knew people live in this area and never bothered to have a way in which people could cross to access their homes,” his father divulged.
This is after he narrated how his son had tried to jump over a ditch the was dug by the contractor currently tasked with tarmacking a section of the road.
The lack of space at the Mama Lucy Hospital theatre where the boy had been rushed immediately after the incident is what made Njoroge transfer his son to the hospital in Pangani.
“That night he was okay, we laughed and talked as usual. I just cannot understand how we later got a call that he is in a comma,” added Njoroge trying hard not to break down.
“When we questioned his sudden change of health, we were told he reacted negatively to the drug he was given prior the operation,” Njoroge divulged.
The Standard claimed that a post mortem report performed at Kenyatta National Hospital mortuary on May 22, 2019 stated that the cause of death was poor procedure in administration of anesthesia.
