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'Genital malfunction' soldier sues hospital for $44,000
01 Nov 2016 at 06:14hrs | Views
A PATIENT is suing South Medical Chitungwiza Hospital for $44 000 for negligence after the medical institution improperly inserted a catheter into his manhood causing serious injury that has seen the victim now failing to be intimate with his wife.
Crispen Nyabeze has since filed papers at the High Court demanding compensation from the hospital. South Medical Chitungwiza Hospital is one of the top medical institutions in the country, serving patients in Harare and Chitungwiza.
In the High Court papers filed on April 21 2016, Nyabeze - a soldier - cites Lincoln Savanhu (a nurse) and South Medical Chitungwiza Hospital as first and second respondents, respectively. Nyabeze is employed by the Zimbabwe National Army as an engineer.
It is alleged that on the 28th day of July 2014, while attending to the plaintiff who was admitted at South Medical Chitungwiza, the first defendant (Savanhu) improperly and negligently inserted a catheter into the plaintiff's penis and thereby causing injury in the plaintiff's bulbar urethra.
The injury to the plaintiff's urethra caused some tight strictures. As a result, plaintiff is no longer able to urinate using his penis and a tube had to be inserted into him to pass urine which position caused a lot of pain and discomfort.
Nyabeze is no longer able to engage in sex with his wife anymore. He is also incapable of fathering any child through the natural reproductive process, a position which has affected plaintiff's marriage and social well-being.
The lawyers said the hospital's negligence affected Nyabeze to the extent that he requires to undergo yet another operation to cure strictures which developed in his urethra. The operation costs $10 000.
His lawayers claim that he suffered damage in the sum of $44 000 made up and calculated as follows: Pain and suffering $8 000, medical and hospital expenses $6 000, disfigurement $3 000, loss of general health $2 000, shortened life expectancy $1 000, future medical expenses $20 000 and $4 000 for miscellaneous expenses.
Source - online
