There was a sigh of relief after doctors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret removed seven needles that had been lodged in the stomach of a three-year-old girl. Doctors said the girl was in stable condition and was responding well to medication. The baby’s plea came to the limelight on Thursday, May 3rd, after doctors at Kapenguria Referral Hospital discovered the needles after she was rushed to the facility.
According to her grandfather, John Chepkokei, they don't understand how the needles got into the minor’s stomach. Her mother ran away after she fell ill only to get married to another man leaving her daughter, Dorcas Chepchumba, in the hands of Chepkokei.
According to ex-ray scan images, five tiny metals were lodged in the abdomen while two others were sandwiched between tissues on her back. Her grandparents said they had initially thought the baby had been bewitched since she was staying with her mother and step-father.
“Chepchumba was born well in a hospital. She has been with her mother but when she started being sickly, the mother ran away. I was left to take care of her. We thought that she was bewitched because the child doesn’t belong to the family where my daughter is married."
But doctors have said the little girl will be fine.
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