Government forms specialized unit to nab unqualified health practitioners
Government forms specialized unit to nab unqualified health practitioners
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has revealed plans to engineer a specialised police unit to enforce compliance within the medical profession, following the death of Amos Isoka, who passed on after complications of an alleged botched tooth surgery.
Speaking during a press briefing on Sunday, January 18, the healthcare boss said that the unit will have the responsibility to weed out and take legal action against unqualified or unlicensed healthcare practitioners in the country.
Duale said that the unit will also oversee operations in the Social Health Authority (SHA) to ensure that other medical practitioners who are still siphoning funds from Kenyans through fraudulent activities are nabbed.
The Ministry of Health said it is working jointly with the DCI to carry out further inquiries into the incident and ensure all those implicated are apprehended and held accountable.
“If you are a quick Healthcare practitioner who is not licensed and has not gone to school like the one who mishandled our patient, I am telling them, they better go look for somewhere else they are going to do their business,” Duale said.
“We will crack the whip, we are planning to form an anti-fraud police Unit to deal with fraud Police Unit to deal with even fraud with SHA, where we are getting people opening and siphoning public money,” he added.
The Health CS has further assured that the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) will waive all the bills that were incurred while he was receiving treatment.
“Tomorrow morning, I will direct KNH to waive all the bills of our late brother, who was mishandled by the quick doctor. This will be the same way we do when people even go there after being injured during protests or other events,” Duale said.
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Amos Isoka passed on on Thursday, January 15, while undergoing treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital, after an alleged botched tooth extraction surgery at a local clinic in Kawangware days earlier.
The illness later worsened following the incident, prompting him to seek specialised treatment at Wema Hospital, where doctors raised concerns that the condition could have resulted from the use of unsterilised dental instruments.
He was later transferred to KNH, where he was admitted for a week. His condition deteriorated further, and he succumbed after developing serious chest and breathing complications.
“I was told that Amos needed chest surgery because he had developed pressure issues the previous night. He stopped breathing and was taken for CPR, but he passed away at around 11 p.m.,” Isoka’s wife said.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) has since confirmed that the medical facility involved in the botched procedure has been operating unlawfully.
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