A patient who went in for surgery in Kenya’s Kenyatta National Hospital has told a horrific story of how her intestines were wrongly cut during delivery.
Susan Nekesa told local media Citizen TV that the surgery has left her unable to sit up and walk after her stomach got swollen.
Speaking out of pain, Nekesa could not hold back her tears in the TV report as she said “Naomba Mungu memory yangu isipotee… (I am praying that I do not lose my memory).”
Nekesa’s sister Evelyn Anindo gave detailed account of the condition in which she saw her sister.
“When I came to see her, I found that she had a swollen stomach,” Evelyn said adding that “Her stomach was also very hot and she could not talk. We communicated using signs.”
Nekesa had complained to hospital staff after the original surgery to enable her deliver her twin babies. She was wheeled back to the theatre only for doctors to admit that they had made a mistake.
“It was discovered that the surgery was done wrongly,” Nekesa’s husband, Robert Sitati said.
“A portion of the small intestines, like 50cm, was outside the chamber where it was supposed to be,” he said.
Doctors removed the affected portion of Nekesa’s intestines and left a small opening (called stoma) to allow her pass stool through a colostomy bag.
In February this year doctors at the same Kenyatta National Hospital wrongly cut open a patient’s head during surgery.
The hospital was forced to apologize for the incident after two men had been sent to the hospital for different head treatment.
One of them needed a surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain “while the other only required nursing and medication to heal a trauma swelling in his head”.
“A horror mix-up of tags”, led to the wrong man being sent into theatre and his skull opened. Doctors realized the mistake hours into the surgery “when they discovered there was no blood clot in the brain”.
Source: Africafeeds.com
