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Minor sues doctor over treatment mishap leading to his amputation

Medical workers applied a plaster cast on the fractured hand of a nine-year-old boy too tightly making it decompose, a court heard yesterday.

The hand was later amputated. The boy has now sued the management of Kakamega County General Hospital, citing negligence.

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