Welcome to Kenya, where medical malpractice is barely punished:
Dr Peter Kiama Wangai, a consultant medical doctor, who also happens to be an advocate of the High Court, argues that doctors in Kenya have it easy when it comes to being punished or admonished for crimes and mistakes related to their work.
“I do not remember in the medical-legal history of this country of a doctor who has been successfully sued for his professional negligence and they are many,” he says. “I’m a medical-legal consultant and I can tell you confidently, the number of patients I encounter everyday as victims of medical malpractice is overwhelming.”
