Eight-year-old boy dies at Nairobi hospital probe
Nairobi hospital is responding to allegations that an 8-year-old boy died after being injected with the wrong dose.
A Twitter post by the child’s father, Isaac Opondo, revealed that the wrong dose was injected into his son Ryan Hawi at the facility.
Ryan, a lively boy who just came home from school, finished his homework and played with his friends before retiring.
Even after sharing my story about how my son died at Nairobi Hospital after a wrong dose, nothing ever happened to them. They ignored my emails. They refused to share handwritten nursing notes. @KmpdcOfficial has refused to compel them too. I am very sad and broken. https://t.co/Xp7taVYrfp
— IsaacDBA (@Opondoi) April 6, 2022
At around 9 pm that night, he complained of back pain and took paracetamol, but the pain did not go away.
The father consulted a pediatrician, who referred him to a Nairobi hospital, where they examined him and gave him several medications.
The boy’s father said that he left around 2 am after taking the medication. Ryan became lethargic, and doctors forced him to be hospitalized.
“During his accident, he was on several drugs, including morphine, a strong opioid. We initially denied the doctor’s admission because it seemed okay. Ryan started taking ketorolac at 2 am, That changed everything, ketorolac was taken off the label and no longer applied to his treatment, he became sleepy and lethargic, which forced us to agree to admit it,” the father said.
On admission, Ryan continued to receive morphine at 3 mL/hr, and gabapentin was introduced under his treatment.
The two drugs, morphine and gabapentin are not to be used together, so Ryan overdosed on them. The father accused Nairobi hospital doctors and staff of failing to give his son naloxone, a life-saving drug that can instantly reverse a morphine overdose.
He also said doctors neglected to perform hemodialysis to remove gabapentin, which was critical to saving Ryan’s life.
According to the boy’s father, the carelessness of doctors at a Nairobi hospital led to his son’s death within four days, who is seeking justice.
