March 1, 2018
Nairobi, Kenya
Madaktari wa Upasuaji katika Hospitali ya Taifa ya Kenyatta wasimamishwa kazi kwa kufanya upasuaji wa kichwa kwa Mgonjwa asiyestahili matibabu hayo.
Madaktari hao walibaini kosa hilo saa chache wakiwa tayari wamekwisha pasua kichwa cha Mgonjwa huyo na kubaini hana tatizo walilotakiwa kulitibu
Taarifa zinabaisha kuwa Hospitalini hapo walifikishwa Wagonjwa wawili waliokuwa hawajitambui na mmoja kati yao ndiye alihitaji upasuaji wa kichwa ili kuondoa damu ilionekana imevilia.
Tatizo kama hili lilishawahi kutokea Tanzania pia. SOma=>Inawezekana matatizo ya nchi ni makubwa kuliko tunavyodhani: Immanuel Didas, apasuliwa kichwa badala ya mguu MOI
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A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday.
One needed head 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, medically known as closed head injury.
However, a horror mix-up of identification tags 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.
They had cut open the head of the wrong patient in a dizzying case of medical malpractice that once again casts the spotlight on the country’s biggest referral hospital.
The mix-up also raises questions about pre-surgery procedures in Kenyan hospitals, especially on how to ensure the right patient is operated on the right place.
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi, Kenya
Madaktari wa Upasuaji katika Hospitali ya Taifa ya Kenyatta wasimamishwa kazi kwa kufanya upasuaji wa kichwa kwa Mgonjwa asiyestahili matibabu hayo.
Madaktari hao walibaini kosa hilo saa chache wakiwa tayari wamekwisha pasua kichwa cha Mgonjwa huyo na kubaini hana tatizo walilotakiwa kulitibu
Taarifa zinabaisha kuwa Hospitalini hapo walifikishwa Wagonjwa wawili waliokuwa hawajitambui na mmoja kati yao ndiye alihitaji upasuaji wa kichwa ili kuondoa damu ilionekana imevilia.
Tatizo kama hili lilishawahi kutokea Tanzania pia. SOma=>Inawezekana matatizo ya nchi ni makubwa kuliko tunavyodhani: Immanuel Didas, apasuliwa kichwa badala ya mguu MOI
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A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday.
One needed head 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, medically known as closed head injury.
However, a horror mix-up of identification tags 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.
They had cut open the head of the wrong patient in a dizzying case of medical malpractice that once again casts the spotlight on the country’s biggest referral hospital.
The mix-up also raises questions about pre-surgery procedures in Kenyan hospitals, especially on how to ensure the right patient is operated on the right place.
Source: Daily Nation
