A man whose wife died while undergoing a breast enlargement surgery has accused a doctor who led the operation of trying to induce him to drop his claim for compensation.
Joseph Mulupi claimed lead plastic surgeon at Surgeoderm Healthcare Clinic Stanley Khainga approached him to have the matter settled out of court.
Mr Mulupi said he was asked to withdraw a complaint of professional misconduct and negligence he filed against Prof Khainga and two other doctors.
He maintained that his wife June Mulupi walked into Khainga’s clinic on June 5, last year, a healthy woman and were it not for the negligence of the plastic surgeon and his colleagues Martin Ajujo and Evans Cherono, his wife would still be alive today.
Play with me
“It is highly manipulative and insensitive for Prof Khainga to play with me psychologically when it is their actions that caused the death of my wife. He has time and again sent his colleague to approach me, including during the funeral, for an amicable out-of-court settlement,” swore Mulupi.
He added that the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board’s disciplinary committee was justified to take up the matter after the doctors’ explanations and attempts to shift blame to Nairobi Hospital did not bear fruit.
Mulupi stated that if his wife was said to be in stable condition at the time of transfer to Nairobi Hospital, as claimed by the plastic surgeons, then there would have been no need to transfer her there. He said they would have directly discharged her like they did to other patients visiting their clinic.
“My wife walked into their clinic on June 5, 2018, in perfect health and the sudden drop of blood pressure, bowel perforation, kidney failure and sepsis does not ordinarily occur without negligence. At no point was it demonstrated to have been caused by her voluntary act,” swore Mulupi.
Mulupi filed the replying affidavit in the case in which Khainga, Dr Ajujo and Dr Cherono are contesting the medical board’s recommendations that a tribunal be appointed to investigate their conduct and suitability to perform plastic surgery after the failed surgery.
Justice Weldon Korir scheduled the hearing on December 3.
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