Woman nurses wound after ‘botched’ childbirth surgery

Sharon Khayeri speaks to journalists. She is nursing an open wound in the abdomen allegedly caused by an operation gone awry. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

When she first learnt she was pregnant, Sharon Khayeri, 21, was excited. For nine months, she religiously attended ante-natal clinics. When the time to give birth came, she was taken to the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital, where she successfully delivered on March 6, 2018 through Ceasarean Section (C-section).

That was the beginning of her woes, as doctors who operated on her allegedly left cotton wool in her womb, causing an infection in the uterus. “I had a smooth pregnancy and was happy after giving birth to my first-born daughter. But the joy faded away because of the infection in my uterus,” says Ms Khayeri.