KNH On the Spot Again After Another Surgery Gone Wrong

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is, once again in the spotlight after claims of a cesarean surgery gone wrong.

Susan Nekesa walked into the hospital in labor on January 25 and where she delivered two beautiful girls the day after.

But something wrong happened thereafter. Her stomach became inflamed and it was accompanied by unbearable pain, she says.

Talking to Citizen TV, she said the pain was too much that she could hardly speak. The TV report shows Nekesa struggling to achieve a sitting position with tears masking her face and in between her sobs, she shares her unfortunate ordeal hoping she doesn’t lose her memory.

According to her sister, Evelyn Anindo, when she walked in to see her, she found that Nekesa’s stomach was swollen.

“She could not speak and her stomach was very hot. We had to communicate using signs,” Evelyn said.

After complaining to the medical staff, poor Nekesa was rushed back to the operating room. That is when the doctors admitted that they had made a mistake.

“It was revealed that the surgery was done wrong. Some parts of the small intestine, like 50 centimeters, was outside where it shouldn’t be,” says Robert Sitati, Nekesa’s husband.

To correct the mistake, the doctors detached the affected portion of Nekesa’s intestines and left a stoma – a small opening that allows one to pass stool through a colostomy bag.

Kenyatta National Hospital again. A mother who delivered through operation had her bladder & small intestine punctured. She now uses pipes for both long calls. Her bladder is now rotting & sometimes urine comes through the mouth. KNH has refused her to leave 4 further medication

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All the family could do was hope that Nekesa recovers well and take her twins home.

However, their relief was short lived as on Tuesday, they were told that one of the twins had died.

“They said that my child had a hole in the heart,” says a distraught Nekesa.

This conflicted with what Nekesa’s husband was told. According to Mr. Sitati, a KNH staff member had told him that their little girl had chocked on milk!

“Someone told me that the person feeding my child was inexperienced,” he says.

Nekesa, mourning the death of her baby expressed bitterness for the negligence of KNH doctors who failed to do their job well.

“Nobody is taking care of her when the colostomy bag gets full, it is up to the patient to struggle to the bathroom to empty it,” says Evelyn.

Currently, the family is left stranded, with the KNH staff imploring them to be patient because the hospital has no consultants to attend to Nekesa.

This comes after the registrars and doctors pursuing masters’ degrees went on strike early in March after some of their colleagues were suspended following a botched brain surgery.

Nekesa’s husband is also afraid to transfer his wife to a different hospital saying he was warned against it and told he would foot medical bills himself if he left KNH.

For the wife, all she has left is hope. “They have kept me here for so long…I have been persevering…with the hope that one day I will go and see my children,” says Nekesa.