Kitui Referral Hospital performs
successful, historic brain surgery
By Gabriel Ndeleva
Kitui County under the leadership of Governor Charity Ngilu, has made a ground-breaking with the first ever successful brain surgery. The surgery, performed last Friday, was to remove a blood clot in the brain of the patient, who was to unable to raise funds to get it done at Kenyatta Hospital.
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| Gov Ngilu and Health CO Dr Muthoka visiting the patient |
Dr Samuel Njiru, a Neurosurgeon led a battery of highly skilled, motivated and hardworking staff of the Kitui County Referral Hospital, which comprised of Doctors, Anaesthetists,nurses among others, in the two hour operation.
An elated Governor Ngilu said at the hospital: " I am very happy that in Kitui County, we have a theatre with the equipment needed to conduct such a Surgery, what we need is just to engage the professionals." Then she invoked her clarion call: "Ni Mbee Nzei, Kitui Forward Sasa.
Governor Ngilu was visiting the patient to wish him quick recovery and is showing great progress in his recovery.
Mrs Ngilu’s administration has entered into a partnership with VIRION Health Limited, a leading consortium of medical practitioners for the provision of advanced medical consultancy and treatment to local residents.
Healthcare provision is the second pillar of Mrs Ngilu's manifesto, and she has allocated 2.9 Billion to the Health Ministry.
She will be launching the Kitui County Health Insurance Cover on August 21 as she marks her first anniversary in office.
