She was little known until a scandal happened at the biggest hospital in Kenya, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Lily Koros formerly the Chief Executive Officer Kenyatta National Hospital is back in government this time she has been appointed as the administrative secretary at the Health Ministry.
Ms. Koros will now work under the Principal Secretary, Peter Tum, and will be in charge of administration and financial accounting in other departments.
The ministry is currently divided into different departments with the technical wing being headed by the Director of Medical Services and administration section headed by the PS in which Koros will work under.
While speaking on Koros appointment PS Peter Tum said, “She is in charge of administration and her job entails oversight of general duties in the ministry, which includes finance, accounts and other departments.”
The former CEO was suspended on March 3 after a brain surgery was performed on the wrong patient in the hospital.The bungled surgery was performed on a patient with a swelling on the head instead of a patient with a blood clot.The doctors realised that they had the wrong patient two hours into the surgery after they failed to find the purported clot.Thomas Mutie was appointed the acting CEO after her departure. The ministry will now embark on recruiting a substantive CEO.Koros’ dismissal from the facility had provoked an angry reaction from the Rift Valley MPs who accused the Cabinet Secretary for health of unfairly dismissing her without investigation.
The decision was made after the Health CS together with KNH board members.
This came after news that a wrong name tag caused a patient to go under the scalpel for a delicate procedure opened a new battle for the hospital’s CEO, barely a month after she was quizzed by Parliament over rape allegations of mothers the in the facility. Even though she put a brave face and defended the hospital, behind the scenes, calls for her resignations were coming from all quarters, including politicians who felt she has lost control of the largest referral hospital in the country.