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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Committee interviewed the Hospital’s Board of Management; medical personnel involved in the specific cases; the Cabinet Secretary (CS), Ministry of Health; the patients who were involved and their relatives. It also involved the public on the matter in appreciation of the principle of public participation in our governance process as enshrined in our laws. The inquiry covered the entire spectrum of health service provision at the hospital from leadership and management to health personnel and auxiliary services like security. The Committee further analysed financial allocations to the hospital, the referral practice and human resource contingent deployed at the hospital. The Committee did not find evidence to substantiate the allegations of sexual assault. The allegations made by a social media user could not be verified and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had been conducting investigations. It is the Committee’s hope that the police would get to the bottom of the matter. It was not just a cyber-criminal activity that the House has been grappling with of late, and even introducing legislation to curb the same. In our report, we have requested that this House, if it adopts the Report, the DCI be given 14 days to give this Committee the report on the findings of this allegation and especially because the social media user never appeared before the committee or in person. So, the social media user was still unknown. On the matter of the surgery mix-up involving two patients, the Committee observed a number of failures along the system contributed to mishap. I will shortly mention them. We recommend that the hospital takes full responsibility of the recovery of the patients and consider remedial action. Before then, I know people will be asking themselves what happened. On 18th February 2018, one patient by the name Wachira Kimani was admitted at the Hospital and taken to Ward 5(a). He was an accident trauma patient. He was supposed to be given medication. On 19th February 2018, a patient by the name Nderitu John was again received at the accident casualty and was recommended for a surgery because the doctors believed he had a clot in the brain. The Committee went through the whole process and we noted with a lot of concern that when the so called John Nderitu was received at the casualty and recommended to go for surgery, he was sent to Ward 5(a) where he was not labelled. When he was received in Ward 5(a) in the presence of the relatives, the same day on 19th February 2018, he was taken to the theatre with the relatives, but they were told to wait until evening. That was around 3.00 p.m. Later, when the relatives went to the hospital to check how long he was to take in the theatre, they were shocked to find John Nderitu back in the ward. They were explained to by the nurse that they found that John Nderitu required blood for surgery and they were waiting for blood. They were advised to go home because he was to undergo the surgery later in that night. We learnt that around 5.30 p.m., there was change of shifts by nurses and only one nurse by the name Mwangi received the handover notes from the nurse who was there during the day. Later, a nurse, Mary Wahome, reported on duty and was handed over by John, the room that specifically John Nderitu was supposed to be. Hon. Speaker, when the theatre called for John Nderitu to be taken for surgery, the nurse who did her submission before the committee admitted then that she had not seen John Nderitu The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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