There is a new twist to the surgery mix-up at Kenyatta National Hospital as two patients involved in the mix-up are reportedly said to be recovering well.
According to Daily Nation, the two patients can talk. Yesterday, they spoke to the Nation where they gave an account of what led them to being hospitalized at the facility.
Their names have been concealed to protect their privacy.
“I’m feeling much better now as compared to the time when I was first brought into the facility,” one of the patients who had a clot in his brain said.
He offers that he developed the brain clot after he was run down by a motorcycle soon after just a few metres from his Kahawa West residence.
“I was crossing the road at around 7pm when a speeding motorbike hit me. The impact left me unconscious,” he narrates.
He says he was quickly rushed to a nearby clinic by good Samaritans before his family took him to another hospital in Kasarani, St Francis Hospital, from where he was taken to KNH.
Upon arriving at KNH, doctors recommended he undergo brain surgery, but he was shocked to hear that someone else was operated on and not him.
“I didn’t even see the other patient and cannot recognise him since we’ve not officially met since the mishap occurred,” he said adding that doctors then prescribed medication for him.
On the other hand, the patient who was wrongly operated on said that he is recovering well.
“I’m feeling better, although there is slight pain from the post-operative wounds,” he said.
The responses from the two patients corroborate the hospital’s account that the two patients are in stable condition.
However, the twist is that one family from Kitale, claimed that their son, Angelos Miano who was to be operated on after suffering brain injury in an accident along University way died after the surgical mix-up at the facility.
Miano was a second year student at the University of Nairobi pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Angelos, 25, was involved in a road accident on Monday along University way. A good Samaritan took him to KNH where he was put on medication and scheduled for brain surgery two days later.