A team of six health workers at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital have taken eight hours to operate on nine year old Samuel Akamumpa who was forced to swallow four dozen needles and many pieces of broken pens in Mitooma district.
The team comprised of an anesthetist, three pediatric surgeons, and two theater nurses to carry out the successful operation.
Dr Deus Twesigye, the lead general surgeon and also the acting Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital director, says the operation was done twice in a space of two days, with the first operation taking six hours and the second taking two hours.
He narrates that the first operation saw 48 needles extracted, and the second operation saw two needles extracted, and in every operation, broken pieces of plastic Bic pen were removed from the abdomen.
Twesigye says that before the operation, it took two diagnostic investigations using an ultrasound Scan and an X-ray to confirm four antibodies (external particles) in the abdomen of the nine-year-old child after presenting progressive loss of weight, abdominal pains, and passing dark stool. 45 year old Juliet Tushabeomwe was arrested after she was accused of having forced her stepson to swallow needles and broken pieces of a BIC pen.
Tushabomwe was arraigned before the Mitooma Grade One Magistrate, charged with two counts -aggravated torture and attempted murder- and remanded to Mitooma Government prisons after she pleaded not guilty to both charges.
By URN
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