A teacher and her husband have sued a private hospital, claiming that she was permanently sterilised without her consent The couple claim doctors carried out bilateral tubal ligation, a permanent form of family planning, as she was delivering.
This is the second time the couple and the Nairobi Women's Hospital are facing off in court.
In November 18, 2021, Justice Hedwig Ong'udi ordered the hospital to pay the woman Sh1 million and the costs of the case for violating her right to information. In the fresh case filed before High Court judge Bahati Mwamuye, the woman says she attended the hospital for an emergency Caesarian section operation on May 16, 2018.
The woman delivered the following day.
