I almost died- dethroned Miss Kenya Roshanara Ebrahim narrates her horrid experience

By Esther Muchene | 7yrs ago | 2 min read

Like many Kenyans who take their grievances to social media, dethroned Miss Kenya Roshanara Ebrahim followed suit and narrated her painful experience that almost killed her after getting the wrong diagnosis at one of the esteemed hospitals in the country.

In a long post she described her woes:

‘I got a viral flu which turned to bronchitis which basically features a bad cough. I got onto antibiotics locally, and was getting better although a sore pain had started developing around my rib area on the right side especially when I coughed.

One morning two and a half weeks ago, I felt a very unbearable sharp pain as I coughed which broke me down to the ground, I had heard a snap and knew I'd broken a bone or collapsed a lung, I was completely incapacitated and unable to even move let alone walk. I was taken to emergency and put in a wheel chair to the ward where I was injected with pain medication, twice, the pain became bearable but still horrid.

A chest x ray, blood tests and organ function tests and three doctor changes later (Each doctor got busy with other *more injured* patients) a lady doctor went through my tests and concluded I was perfectly fine and just had a low tolerance for pain and just needed to continue my antibiotics. She prescribed pain medication and asked me to go home. I felt crazy!!! A week later and I was still in unbearable pain that would leave me in tears every time I coughed. The pain got so bad it brought me to my knees. I was in bed for days after that.

Today, I had enough and went for an x ray. Guess what? I've been walking around with a broken rib! Luckily, I haven't been exerting myself but they say I could've ruptured my lung! #MedicalNegligence So much for having faith in our doctors. Was it not clear there's a bone sticking out my back!?

I could be dead today! My family even flew in to see me as I was in serious pain, I remember nights last week where everyone would stand around me in the wee hours of the night feeling so helpless as I cried for hours at end begging for the pain to go away. This is despite all the pain pills. There I was thinking I was crazy and couldn't handle pain… “ She posted two days ago.

Currently recovering from the broken rib, the hospital she had attended has come out to acknowledge their error and have offered her an apology.