A neurosurgeon at Kenya’s largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient, the hospital said in a statement on Friday. The hospital said the surgeon, as well as two nurses and an anaesthetist, had been suspended pending an investigation into the operation “on the wrong patient”. One required surgery to remove a blood clot to his brain, while the other needed only medication for a swollen head. Hours into the surgery doctors discovered there was no blood clot in the brain of their patient, and that they were in fact operating on the wrong man, the newspaper reported. Kenyatta National Hospital is Kenya’s oldest and largest hospital, and also serves as a teaching hospital.

Source: Hindustan Times March 02, 2018 14:03 UTC