Surgery mix-up: KNH reinstates suspended staff

Surgery mix-up: KNH reinstates suspended staff

The Kenyatta National Hospital board has reinstated the four suspended medics involved in the brain surgery mix-up in a bid to pave way for investigations.

This came after Medical Board Chair George Magoha called for their reinstatement saying that due process will still be followed after the investigations are complete.

Magoha further urged all the registrars who went on strike following the suspension of their colleagues to resume duty further promising to work on their allowances.

On her part, Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki indicated that she expects to receive investigation reports from the KNH board and Medical Practitioners and Dentist board on Friday, March 9 for further action.

The probe follows public uproar after a neurosurgeon at the facility performed brain surgery on the wrong patient.

Reports indicate that a mix-up of tags occurred on two patients; one who was to undergo surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain and another who only required nursing and treatment for a swelling in his head.

Hours into the surgery, the doctors apparently failed to find the blood clot and it was then that they realised they had cut open the skull of the wrong man.

 

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