Many patients suffer in silence as operations end badly

Students of Univesirty of Nairobi demonstrate outside Kenyatta National Hospital Accident and Emergency unit yesterday. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

On August 26, 2008, Benjamin Mwangangi, a resident of Kayole in Nairobi, visited a city hospital. He was experiencing discomfort while urinating.

The hospital staff attended to Mr Mwangangi and he was admitted for surgery the next day. However, things did not go well as the knife slipped from the surgeon's hand and punctured his rectum.