Operations at the Aga Khan University Hospital main branch along Third Parklands Avenue in Nairobi have been paralysed over radiology system failure grinding the critical imaging services to a halt.
Since Friday last week, those seeking imaging services, both inpatient and outpatient have been treated to horrendous scenarios particularly those who had been scheduled for emergency treatment.
“The CT-Scan section has suffered complete closure. No scan reports are being processed. Doctors have resorted to verbal interpretation of the results instead of the analysed scan reports. Many have been referred to other facilities.” An insider intimated.
Patients have now threatened to sue the privately owned facility of medical negligence should their health deteriorate or in case of any eventuality for delayed treatment.
Worst hit are those hopitalised and set to undergo emergency surgeries.
“There has been massive interruptions and operational failures occasioned by the system breakdown. The machine is old and poorly maintained.” He added.
The hospital has in the past been bedeviled by multiple cases of medical negligence and misdiagnosis.
Two years ago, a based Kisumu court ordered the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu to pay a woman Ksh.3million in damages for negligence.
Antonina Akinyi had sued the hospital after a botched operation on her body in 2015 after she was admitted with abdominal pain.
In court records, Akinyi says after the operation, she developed complications in her abdomen.
She again underwent another operation but now at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi where she found out that a surgical tool had accidentally been left inside her.
However, in an attempted cover-up, Aga Khan Hospital denied the claims saying the procedure was correctly done.
In the case, Akinyi sued the surgeon who operated on her as well as the hospital.
She had also lodged a complaint with the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board which directed the hospital to compensate her but in vain.
In his landmark ruling CM Julius Ng’arnga’r said that the hospital was guilty and ordered payment of Ksh.3million to Akinyi.
Several other hospitals in the country have recently been put on the spot for alleged sloppiness and lack of care.
