Nakuru woman in pain after injection leaves her unable to walk
Ms Loise Wanjiru with her husband, Mr Jackson Mwangi, recuperating at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital on January 13, 2016 after she was injected with what is suspected to have been the wrong medicine at a chemist, causing her left leg to develop a wound that has so far defied treatment. PHOTO | SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- Chemist attendant declined to reveal drug used in injecting casual labourer.
- When Nation visited the said chemist at Mzee wa Wanyama shopping centre, the outlet was closed, with neighbours saying the owner was away on personal business.
Friday, November 13, 2015 is a day that will remain forever etched in Mrs Loise Wanjiru Mwangi’s mind.
And for all the bad reasons: It is the day the agony she currently wallows in started.
On this day, and in the company of her friend and neighbour, she left her home to seek medical attention from a nearby chemist for a condition that had bothered her for a while.
Loise, 31, had been experiencing prolonged menstrual periods and visiting the chemist at their Mzee wa Nyama shopping centre in Nakuru was, to her, a step towards solving this problem.
But what she had hoped would be a solution to her problems turned into a disaster that has left her and her family in agony.
The chemist attendant suggested and went ahead to administer an injection to address the problem.
COMPLICATIONS
But a few days later, Loise developed pain in the leg on which the injection was administered. Initially, she ignored it, hoping it would ‘heal on its own’. It never did.
Little did she know that a major complication was building up as the pain spread to the rest of the leg to the point that she could not walk.
Worried, her husband took her back to the chemist to get information on the medicine that was administered that might help in her treatment.
But according to the couple, the attendant declined to divulge the name of the drug.
“When I asked the attendant to give me a letter that will help me seek treatment elsewhere, she declined and instead recommended that I go to a nearby dispensary,” said Loise in an interview with the Nation at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital.
The situation would worsen by the day, even after she was admitted to the hospital.
Her husband, Mr Jackson Mwangi, has been visiting her here daily.
He has to plan his schedule to make time to take care of their five children.
He reported the matter to Mwariki Police Station but gave up after the officers there demanded that the patient, who was still in hospital, present herself to record a statement.
“Following up on the matter took too much of my time and there seemed to be nothing much the police were doing on the case,” said Mr Mwangi, sitting next to his wife on the hospital bed.
The couple had been working as casual labourers but the burden of providing for the family is now solely the husband’s.
When Nation visited the said chemist at Mzee wa Wanyama shopping centre, the outlet was closed, with neighbours saying the owner was away on personal business.
