Daily Monitor
Saturday January 09 2021
Summary
It was established through a postmortem examination that the anesthetist wrongly inserted the tube to supply the patient oxygen and anesthesia during the operation into her oesophagus instead of her trachea
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On the 14th day of October 2010 a 34 year woman died at the Women’s Hospital International, Kampala at the beginning of a surgical operation to remove a single fibroid from her uterus. The procedure used was laparoscopic surgery and a doctor from Nairobi was specially hired to carry out the procedure. The doctor was not registered, as required by law, to practice medicine in Uganda and neither did he get a temporary practicing certificate.