Nairobi, Sept. 18 -- Expectant women filed the highest number of medical negligence cases against medics, data from the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) shows.
Three out of 10 medical negligence cases lodged are related to pregnancy, accounting for 27 per cent of the 1,301 complaints the council has received since its inception.
The data presented yesterday to the Senate's Health committee revealed that obstetrics and gynaecology recorded the highest number of cases of medical negligence at 360 cases.
Internal medicine came second with 198 cases (16 per cent), followed by surgeries 181, financial/overcharging (120), paediatrics (101) and orthopaedics (98). Failing to give medical reports, sexual harassment, abscon...