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Court gives woman Sh25.6m for hospital delivery gone bad

Lucy Kinya at a Meru law court on September 19, 2019. The court awarded her Sh25.6 million after a caesarean birth operation left her paralysed on both legs. [Darlington Manyara, Standard]

A woman who was paralysed on both legs after a caesarean delivery three years ago was yesterday awarded Sh25.6 million by a court.

In the ruling delivered by Meru presiding judge Alfred Mabea, the court found the hospital culpable for negligence.

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