If you need surgery at KNH look elsewhere. Not happening. They are demanding reinstatement of their suspended collegues over the brain surgery mishap. Citing systemic failures as to blame for the mishap not the surgeons.
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We like cyclical changes where systemic changes are required. I don’t know how the KNH intends to cure systemic and structural problems by sending people on leave.
If I ever get involved in an accident, and wake up in a hospital, and ask the nurse or doctor what hospital I’m at, and they tell me KNH, I’ll just request to be shown the way to the morgue, to save time for everyone.
I will very very happy. I will come on here and be happy how another shiny eye bites the dust
labda hio kaswende ya mkundu itakuua mbele
It isn’t very truth that the hospital is failed, they do a relatively good job under difficult circumstances. Let us use the errors as learning points, to improve outdated processes, perhaps an Electronic health records (EHRs)
Ideally an effective pre-procedure verification process would avoid errors. A patient under anaesthesia cannot talk and confirm details to surgeons. I guess that a double check by the team should be done before the anaesthetist begin work.
Question - is it an over kill to suspend the surgeons; many other people in the admission process have already failed before patient gets to the Surgeon?
World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist
Another useful tool to promote patient safety in the surgical setting is the surgical safety checklist published by the World Health Organization. The checklist is based on the successful international program “Safe Surgery Saves Lives,” which incorporates validated checklists to be reviewed by the surgical team before induction of anesthesia, before skin incision, and before the patient leaves the operating room (4). It is inappropriate to place total reliance on the surgeon to identify the correct surgical site or to assume that the surgeon should never be questioned. The risk of error may be reduced by involving the entire surgical team in the site verification process and encouraging any member of that team to point out a possible error without fear of ridicule or reprimand.
Patient Involvement
A relatively new but essential element of the overall process is the formal enlistment of the patient in the effort to avert errors in the operative arena. Involving the patient in this manner requires personal effort by the surgeon to educate the patient during the preoperative evaluation process. The patient, who has the greatest stake in avoiding errors, thus becomes integrally involved in helping ensure that errors are avoided.
There were systemic failures, but the surgeon involved also failed at an individual level, Ile story ya meeting your patient first
Still boiling down to mtu syndrome. No one wants to carry the embarrassing blame
They will ALL be reinstated. Koross and surgeons and nurses. I can bet sportspesa on that.
To err is human
Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome.
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
the must take prsonal responsibility , hio ujinga ya strike about somebodies negligence should not be tolerated .
Thd patient was non responsive neither were relatives in sight, we were told.
Hapa umenena. Ditto pia wewe u will take full responsibility for your transgressions against minors and incapacitated (dirunk) females.