A 17 year old boy, Joseph Theuri from Kiambaa- Kiambu County in Kenya has been given a reason to smile after his severed limb was successfully re-implanting. The teenage boy has his limb accidentally severed by a Chaff Cutter machine.

The boy was referred to Kenyatta National Hospital where the medical intervention immediately commenced by a multidisciplinary team of fifteen (15) specialists and Mr. Theuri’s hand was re-implanted in a highly delicate surgery that lasted over 7 hours.

Prof. Stanley Khainga and Dr. Ferdinand Nang’ole led the team of specialists including Plastic Surgeons, anesthetists, orthopedic surgeons and Nursing to realize the historical achievement.

“Two teams were constituted with one team preparing the hand and the other team working on the stump. This was very important as we were racing against time” Said Dr. Nang’ole.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/02/17-year-old-boy-hands-re-attached-doctors-cut-off-graphic-photos.html

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Good to know African doctors are improving!

Nice one

THIS IS WHAT REAL PAIN IS

good, very soon science will be able to restore amputated limbs, something no pastor or god has been able to do.


All glory, honour and praise be to the almighty doctors.

The reason why I hate Jonathan was that he never sacked ABBA MORRO minister of interior ,turned monster of interior over the NIS Nigeria immigration service recruit exercise


It shall never be well with both APC and PDP for giving us wrong choice at a time


Me

GloriaNinja:
THIS IS WHAT REAL PAIN IS

Naaa that ain’t real pain. Real pain is when a man finds out he is not the father to his 4 kids after 25yrs.

Chaiiiii dis boy don face real pain oooooo

Will he still be able to use the hands. The bones, veins , etc i don't understand. Somebody should epp me understand

I'm glad this was done by an African Doctor

Wow! This is incredible. Wonder how life would have been without science

thanks to doctors.......if na sheepies dem go dey wait for miracle......

Milestone achievement.sadly the international community won't give it much credence because a shiit hole country performed the feat.well done Kenya

ibkgab001:
The reason why I hate Jonathan was that he never sacked ABBA MORRO minister of interior ,turned monster of interior over the NIS Nigeria immigration service recruit exercise


It shall never be well with both APC and PDP for giving us wrong choice at a time

Amen.

No dey shepe but that one wey dey ur last paragraph na so he go be.

In naija, da bladi hooligans in white will be like go and open ya file fest! Go and bring mani fah blad fest!

Troublemaker007:


Naaa that ain’t real pain. Real pain is when a man finds out he is not the father to his 4 kids after 25yrs.

like ehn? Wia e wan start from?

Occupational hazard....



Nothing more.

Nigerian doctors can do 10x better

I know some naysayers and mor0ns would come out to say this cannot happen in Nigeria. That's rubbish talk friends. This can ofcus happen in Nigeria but several factors militate against it.
In theory, a person with a severed limb has within 6hrs to get into the operating room for the surgery, and ofcus the severed limb had to be transported in ice.
Now consider a country with poor electricity, terrible roads and poor health awareness. - no ice, delayed transportation and many would prefer to visit the trado-medical healers or primary centres before thinking of going to the tertiary hospitals. And ofcus, factor in that availability of money is also a factor. Our health sector needs to be revamped, NHIS should be made compulsory for all and expanded to cover Surgical cases

Wow, happened in Kenya

Can our Nigerian doctors do this

It can never be functioned but can only be attached.. Meanwhile kudos to the team!

In Nigeria, that limb is as good as toast. Trust our doctors to amputate anything just to stop spreading of 'infection'

Quite genius of them

1zynnvn:
Will he still be able to use the hands. The bones, veins , etc i don't understand. Somebody should epp me understand

From the penultimate pix, its apparent that the anastomosis (attachment) was successful as that pix was taken weeks after the surgery.
Both the stump and the hand have uniform colouration and look healthy.
In other words, the bones , blood vessels, and ligaments have been well aligned. What we can't say for sure is if the nervous function would be intact. That's a matter of months before we can say for sure.

Wonderful

Wandering if the hand can still be active