A family is seeking the intervention of the Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board claiming that a kin was wrongly diagnosed and treated at a prestigious private hospital in Nakuru.
The family of 29-year-old Ruth Wangui said their kin was given wrong medication after checking in at the Nakuru Maternity and Nursing Home to get treatment of recurring severe headache, backache and fever.
The relatives said that due to the medication she underwent through at the facility, she almost lost her eyesight.
“The medication she was made to go through at the hospital threatens to rob her of her eyesight,” said a cousin who had accompanied her during the interview.
According to discharge summaries, Ms Wangui first visited the hospital on December 24 last year and upon medical examination by doctors in the facility, she was told that she had anaemia - a deficiency in the number or quality of red blood cells.
Doctors at the hospital recommended that she undergoes a blood transfusion, which they conducted successfully before she was discharged and given other drugs to take.
However, her hopes of getting well and restoring her good health began dwindling when she began bleeding three days after leaving the hospital. Then from that moment, a string of what Ms Wangui describes as “serious mistakes” started happening.
Longing to restore her good health, she stayed put and went back to the hospital to have more scans to establish what was wrong with her healthy. This time round, a doctor who performed the scan disclosed to her and the relatives that she had fibroids at her uterus which they said threatened to cause her infertility.
The doctors prescribed two options to shrink the fibroids. According to them,a surgery or injections could get rid of the overgrown fibroids.
Ms Wangui said that she chose the injection method and stayed optimistic that the problem could be dealt with now that she was at the hands of doctors.
“The medication took 28 days but my condition did not improve. Only the bleeding stopped but l continued suffering from dizziness accompanied by severe headache and backache,” she said.
The situation worsened with days and she began losing her eyesight. This is when her relatives decided to check in at a different hospital to have their kin re-scanned.
Efforts to reach the hospital management for a comment could not bear fruit as the matron was said to be in a meeting.