Nurses: Report on KNH surgery ‘skewed’, blame doctors

Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) General Secretary Seth Panyako (left) flanked by the union’s Treasurer Agnes Munderu address journalists. The union criticised the report that absolved doctors of blame in the surgery mix-up. [Willis Awandu, Standard]

The Nurses union has rejected the Kenya Medical and Practitioners and Dentists Board's report which blamed nurses on duty for the KNH surgery mix-up.

The union Secretary General Seth Panyako on Tuesday said that systematic failures and glaring gaps in the admission processes at the hospital cannot be pinned on one nurse.