Family of Bypassed KNH Patient Claims He is Dead

A family in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County is now claiming that their son, 25-year old Angelous Miano, who was bypassed in the patient mix up at the Kenyatta National Hospital is dead.

According to reports by the family, Miano succumbed to head injuries he sustained from a motorbike accident for which the botched surgery had been prescribed to remove a blood clot.

However, Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki stated that after visiting both patients, their conditions had improved remarkably.

“Fortunately, the man who was supposed to have surgery has been treated and will not need to be operated on,” CS Sicily maintained.

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The neurosurgeon who undertook the surgery was suspended in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to be made public at KNH.

The incident which happened a week ago saw two men wheeled into KNH unconscious and one needed head surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.

The second patient according to reports only required nursing and medication to heal a trauma swelling in his head, medically known as closed head injury.

However, there was a mix-up of identification tags which saw the wrong man wheeled into theatre and his skull opened.

Doctors did not realise the mistake until hours into the surgery when they discovered there was no blood clot in the brain of the man sprawled on the operating table.

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The Hospital’s board of directors has appointed Dr Thomas Mutie as acting Chief Executive Officer to replace CEO Lily Koros who has been sent on compulsory leave after a series of horrific events hit the institution this year.

 

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