All 28 Busia children in paralysis saga leave hospital

Director of Medical Services Nicholas Muraguri told Capital FM News that the children had made full recovery/FILE

The first half, 14, were released a week earlier and the Director of Medical Services Nicholas Muraguri told Capital FM News that the children had made full recovery.

“Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, all children except one walked out of the hospital. The girl who left in a wheel chair did so because she’s still recovering from surgery necessitated by an infection.”

Muraguri said laboratory tests established that the reason for their paralysis lay not with the malaria medicine administered to them but in the administration itself.

“The matter will be taken up by the nursing council because they are the regulators of nursing care. However, I’ve asked for further investigation even in other facilities.”

The Health Ministry, he said, would also carry out nationwide sensitisation training to health workers on injection safety.

The malaria treatment was administered to children at the Akichelesit Dispensary in Teso North Sub-County, Busia and after media reports of their conditions, transferred for specialised care at the Nairobi Hospital at a cost of Sh5 million on July 31.

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OLIVE BURROWS

With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.

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