How we can confront healthcare crisis, avert costly medical errors

Technical sales representative Megascope Healthcare Peter Ronoh explains to Stanbic Head of Personal Banking Silpah Owich (left), Stanbic head -of personal and business banking Maurice Matumo (2nd right) and Amref Health Africa in Kenya Country director Meshack Ndirangu (right) how the Patient monitor checks the vital signs of a patient at the 1st Kenya Healthcare convention opening. [David Gichuru, Standard]

My mind is deeply perturbed by the recurring life-threatening events affecting our people, especially because these incidents are occurring in our hospitals, where lives should be saved.

I am referring to medical errors. Early last year, Kitui County Referral Hospital misdiagnosed my mother with a fracture and even proceeded to place her leg in a cast.