For 23 years as a nurse, Mary Wahome has never experienced a medical error like the one she and seven other staffers working at Kenyatta National Hospital recently went through.
Hers, she told the National Assembly's Health Committee on Wednesday, has always been a smooth shift every day she has reported to work until February 19, when under her care, the wrong patient was wheeled into theatre and underwent an unnecessary head surgery.
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