Kenyatta National Hospital

In a statement that was released in the wake of negligence claims, the hospital said they promptly attended to the patient who arrived at the facility Monday at ...

“The patient arrived at KNH at 6:30 pm but the circumstances and timing of the injury remained unclear. This was a very serious and unfortunate injury to the two-year-old”. The patient had a foreign object (Forked Jembe) lodged in his head following an incident at their home in Kilimambogo, Kiambu County” he explained.

The Kenyatta National Hospital management said the medics at the facility did their best to save the 2-year-old boy who had fork jembe lodged in his skull.

This was a very serious and unfortunate injury to the two-year child," the statement added. "In the theatre, the patient developed complications and resuscitation attempts were futile. The Hospital Board of Management wishes to convey a message of condolences to the parents and family at large for their loss. In a statement signed by the KNH Board of Management chair George Ooko, the hospital said the boy arrived at KNH on Monday, October 10, at 6.30 pm with serious head injuries. - KNH explained that the injury to the minor was complicated and required a lot of attention for surgery to begin - However, the hospital has provided a chronology of events leading to the death of the boy who had a fork jembe lodged in his skull

The young boy was playing with friends when the fork became lodged in his skull - he was left with it stuck in his head for 20 hours before medics finally ...

The statement said earlier on Tuesday, before the boy died: “Our attention has been drawn to the story circulating online regarding a child admitted at KNH with a fork lodged in his skull. Other reports in Kenya stated that the boy had been taken to Thika Level V Hospital on Monday, a facility in Thika, an industrial town and a major commerce hub in Kiambu County, Kenya, lying 26 miles northeast of Nairobi. “The patient had lost a lot of blood and as a result, the clotting process was not occurring as expected, thereby, delaying the surgical procedure as this would have been dangerous to the patient. The boy was admitted at around 6pm on Monday, October 10, with a promise that he would be taken to theatre, but for 20 hours, he was under observation after being transferred to KNH from a smaller hospital, his family said. One of the huge teeth on the piece of equipment became lodged in the boy's skull when he was allegedly hit with it by one of his siblings. The youngster had reportedly gone outside with his siblings, and other children carried a "fork jembe" they spotted stored in the house in the rural town.