Wrong surgery patient was not labeled, and appeared 'confused and disoriented'

KNH doctors who carried out controversial operation from left are Dr.Michael Magoha, Dr.Nelson Okedi, Dr.Dave Mangar, Dr.Hudson Nganga and Dr.Mose Moraa when they appeared before the health Committee at Continental House, Nairobi on March 14. [Photo by Boniface Okendo/Standard]

No one in the ward of the patients in the surgery mix-up at Kenyatta National Hospital had a name tag, a parliamentary committee was told yesterday.

“It is only after Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki came to visit on learning of the incident that we found my brother with a tag,” Pauline Njeri, the sister of one of the patients involved in the mix-up, told the parliamentary Health Committee.