Shocking: Five year old been living with needle in jaw for nine months

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Can you imagine the pain of having a needle in your jaw? Even the thought of it is painful.

A five-year-old in Nyeri has been living with a needle lodged inside her jaw for the last nine months after a procedure to extract her tooth went awry. According to her mother, Jacinta Muthoni’s, the young girl was taken to Huruma mission hospital in Nanyuki town by her grandmother Jacinta Wanjiku on January 24.

The girl was to have one of her incisors extracted but the procedure has since remained a nightmare for the child and her family after the anaesthetic needle broke inside the jaw. Doctors said that the needle could not be removed immediately as it would make the situation worse.

 

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Following the sensitiveness of her case, the girl was transferred from Huruma Hospital to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital and then to Nyeri Level Five Hospital and finally to Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, all institutions claiming they are unable to remove the needle.

The girl’s mother said that she had taken her daughter to countless medical institutions both private and public seeking to have the needle removed but could not raise the amount required to carry out the delicate operation.

“Huruma hospital insisted that my daughter did not need surgery to have the needle removed but I felt otherwise that’s when they started giving me a cold shoulder. At times the hospital administrator would chase me away if I went to enquire about the case,” she said.

X-ray scans of the girls show the needle still lodged on her left side of the upper jaw with fears that it could be moving towards the child’s brain.

 

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Huruma Mission Hospital has been cagey on offering more information regarding the case and at some point even barred journalists from accessing the facility.

Nanyuki Catholic Diocese Legal Officer Fr. David Mutahi who later agreed to speak to the media over the matter said that Huruma Hospital was willing to assist the girl and that’s why it facilitated her move to KNH.

“Dental surgeons at Kenyatta (KNH) assured us and the girl’s family the needle was not life threatening but the mother keeps on insisting that she wants it removed,” he said.

 

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He further added that if it turned out that the surgery was necessary, Huruma Hospital would foot the cost.

However, Muthoni has dismissed the hospital’s claims saying, “They never offered any assistance and that’s why we have been struggling to raise money for my daughter to be treated. I have sold all my goats to take her for tests in various hospitals.”

According to her, one of the private hospitals in the country asked her to part with Ksh. 150,000 to have the needle surgically removed

 

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