Brain surgery on wrong person - Kenyan doctors’ ultimate malpractice.
Following a brain surgery a wrong patient was subjected to at a Nairobi hospital, Staff from nurses to the CEO have been suspended.
The horrifying mix-up of identification tags saw the wrong man operated on, as it was gathered that one patient needed surgery for a blood clot on the brain, the other needed only non-invasive treatment for swelling.
The doctors did not realise their mistake until “hours into the surgery”, as they realized “there was no blood clot”, the Daily Nation reported.
The patient who was operated on is recovering, the hospital says, and an investigation is under way. Regulators have demanded a report and plan to hold a hearing.
Social media users have expressed shock that such an incident could have been allowed to happen.
The horrifying mix-up of identification tags saw the wrong man operated on, as it was gathered that one patient needed surgery for a blood clot on the brain, the other needed only non-invasive treatment for swelling.
The doctors did not realise their mistake until “hours into the surgery”, as they realized “there was no blood clot”, the Daily Nation reported.
The patient who was operated on is recovering, the hospital says, and an investigation is under way. Regulators have demanded a report and plan to hold a hearing.
Social media users have expressed shock that such an incident could have been allowed to happen.
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