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Kenya: KNH Handled 482 Victims, Team Told
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The Nation (Nairobi)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 24 July 2008
Mugo Njeru
Nairobi
Kenyatta National Hospital attended to 482 post-election violence victims, the Waki commission of Inquiry heard on Wednesday.
Kenyatta National Hospital chief executive Jotham Micheni with the commission's counsel David Majanja during his presentation at KICC on Wednesday. Photo/PHOEBE OKALL
The hospital's chief executive, Dr Jotham Njue Micheni, said 19 of them died. He said 61 of the victims were brought to the hospital with bullet wounds.
"Almost all the cases of shootings were by the police, according to the victims, the police themselves or relatives who brought them to the hospital," Dr Micheni said.
He said two of the victims of shootings died at the hospital after they had been admitted, he said.
Dr Micheni said the data he was releasing was for the period December 28 to February 8. He told the commission at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre that the cases comprised 448 men and 34 women.
Dr Micheni said the victims were aged between 23 and 30 years.
He said 239 had multiple cuts, 68 head injuries, 42 multiple fractures, 48 with soft tissue injuries while five were admitted for burns and arrow injuries. Two of the victims had their limbs chopped off, two had eye injuries while five had chest injuries.
Two were brought in a state of delirium as a result of stress disorder, Dr Micheni said.
The victims of the violence, which broke out after the announcement of the presidential results, came from Kibera, Mathare, Kariobangi, Dandora, Kangemi and Baba Ndogo areas, he said.
"Majority of these cases came from low social status areas," he said.
Twenty other patients, Dr Micheni said, were referral cases from outside Nairobi. Seven were from Naivasha, four from Kisii, two from Narok Hospital and one each from Eldoret, Nakuru Provincial General Hospital, Masaba Hospital, Kericho, Keroka and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.
Discharged
But the hospital boss told the commission that currently there were no cases of post- election violence at the hospital as those who survived had been treated and discharged.
For an institution that has a staff capacity of 4,640, the magnitude of the post-election violence was overwhelming, considering that not all of them were reporting to work daily.
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Many of the workers, he said, were either marooned at their estates or had no means of coming back to Nairobi from their rural areas where they had gone to vote.
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