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Services at KNH paralysed as registrars strike over botched brain surgery

Kenyatta National Hospital where registrars (trainee consultants) are on strike until what they call systematic errors at the facility are solved. One of them was suspended after a surgical operation on the wrong patient. [Courtesy]

Services at Kenyatta National Hospital have been paralysed after about 700 registrars boycotted work protesting the suspension of their colleagues over a recent blunder where one of them opened the head of the wrong patient.

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