Kenya as a Country is continuing to make major strides in the medical fields with the Country’s biggest referral hospital; Kenyatta Hospital giving Kenyans a reason to start foregoing foreign trips in the name of seeking medical attention.
Do you remember the successful separation of conjoined twins in 2016 by a team of 50 doctors at the hospital?
Do you also remember of how In February last year,doctors at Kenyatta successfully reattached the arm of a boy, 17, Joseph Theuri, which had been accidentally severed by a chaff cutter machine?
Well, if you thought that those were the only surgical breakthroughs that will ever come from Kenyatta hospital then you are in for a rude shock.
Medical practitioners at Kenyatta have once again made headlines and this time it is for reconstructing the penis of a Form Three boy that had been chopped off in December last year.
The procedure that took seven hours involved a team of 15 multidisciplinary specialists.
The boy was assaulted by an unknown person last month who chopped off his reproductive organ at the base near the scrotum using a kitchen knife. The incident occurred at night.
The patient, a firstborn in his family, was referred to KNH from a county hospital.
Speaking to the press on Wednesday, the lead doctor said the chopped organ had been stored in a hospital where the boy was first rushed.
The patient, whose identity was concealed by the medics, was reviewed by plastic and urology teams who then booked him for the procedure.
The boy arrived at KNH looking weak and in trauma, having bled heavily. He was, however, in a stable state, the doctors said.
Thanks to the success of the procedure, the doctors said the patient will now be able to urinate and engage in sexual gratification again.
“The patient is reporting erection and the length is good,” they said.
Doctors said he is due for discharge in two weeks.