Busia Referral Hospital has come under heavy criticism following the tragic death of Moses Dismus Oduor, a young teacher from Samia, whose life was cut short after a road accident— a situation now being linked to alleged medical negligence and systemic failures at the facility.
Oduor, a teacher at St. Chrispine Samia Girls Secondary School, was involved in an accident on Friday evening on June 6, at Bunandi while heading to pick up his wife. It is reported that he was first rushed to Sio Port Sub county Hospital before being referred to Busia County Referral Hospital (BCRH) later that night.
He was admitted unconscious to Ward 5 at BCRH, where a head CT scan was conducted the following day, Saturday. However, the results were delayed, allegedly because the hospital’s radiologist was unavailable. By Monday, June 9, at 2 p.m., more than 48 hours later, the report had yet to be released.
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It took alarmed relatives and pressure on hospital management for the report to be produced shortly after 3 p.m. by Dr. Namudala Emukule. The scan revealed that Oduor’s condition was critical and beyond the hospital’s capacity to manage, necessitating an urgent transfer to a facility with ICU services.
However, the discharge and referral process dragged on for an additional two and half hours due to a lack of ambulance services and slow hospital systems. He was finally transferred and admitted to Life Care Hospital around 8 p.m., where he was taken directly to the ICU.
Tragically, he succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
By Cornelius korir
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