A patient who went to seek medication at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital is seeking justice on what he terms as 'wrong dosage and mistreatment by hospital management'
Jared Mayaka, 31, says he was admitted at the facility on April 8th this year for the third time, after being referred from the neighbouring Nyamira County Referral Hospital.
For all these time, he was being treated of anaemia with the hospital sending his bone marrow for further analysis, a move that would enable doctors understand his situation.
"They took my bone marrow because I could not sustain blood in my body. After the results came out, I was told to seek further medication elsewhere either Kenyatta or Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret. I accepted the decision and waited for referral," he noted.
After some time, he said "I started processing for my discharge but doctors cancelled their initial decision. They said I was suffering from Meningitis. They cancelled my discharge and readmitted me again."
At this juncture, doctors advised him to either chose from being treated by taking tablets or injections. They termed the disease as 'dangerous' adding that the treatment ought to be an emergency.
According to him, nurses on duty on Sunday failed to inject him despite giving out the medicine he had been instructed to buy. Further, he says, the evening nurse could not trace the medicine he had earlier given to daytime nurse on duty.
But after he was long asleep, the doctors showed up with the medicine, injecting him long hours after the stipulated time. He started feeling dizzy and lost his memory.
"The nurses showed up after one hour when I was almost asleep with a readily prepared medicine and they injected me. I started feeling unusual until my colleagues started pronouncing me dead," he noted, adding that he lost his speech by that time.
Due to this negligence, he says, he decides to look for exit from the hospital to some other facilities. However, doctors and nurses at KTRH have reportedly rendered him mentally unstable and even threatened to deny him dosages.
"They threatened to deny me dosage. They told me that I have gone mad. They stopped attending to me until Tuesday 4pm when I decided to seek for a forced discharge. They released me with a note that says 'discharge against medical advice'," he added.
At the moment, Mr Mayaka now wants the KTRH team to write him a proper discharge so that he can be allowed to seek medical attention elsewhere. KTRH serves patients from Kisii and neighbouring counties.
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