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Kenya: Another Surgery Botched at Kenya's Top Referral Hospital
East African, 22 March 2018
Kenya's top referral hospital is on the spot yet again following claims of a botched caesarean section. Read more »
A patient is accusing Kenyatta National Hospital of a surgical mishap during a caesarean section that has resulted in doctors removing about 50 centimetres of her small intestines and the death of one of the twin girls delivered through the operation. This comes two weeks after the hospital performed brain surgery on the wrong patient.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
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