Gory details of Kenyatta National Hospital patient’s murder laid bare

Kenyatta National Hospital’s Lily Koros, Manasseh Mugwang’a and Benard Githae when they appeared before Parliament’s Health Committee yesterday. [PHOTO: MOSES OMUSULA]

NAIROBI: Shocking details of how a cancer patient was stabbed 42 times and bludgeoned to death with an iron bar in his bed at Kenyatta National Hospital emerged at a parliamentary committee hearing.

The only witness to the murder was a 12-year-old patient who could neither hear, speak or write, members of the National Assembly Health Committee heard.