Posted on 06/21/2021 10:00:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of Nine-year-old Rodwell Khomazana who was mauled by a hyena during a night time church service in Zimbabwe.
Doctors in one of the city's main public hospitals stabilised his condition, but lacked the resources to fully repair the boy's ravaged face.
His desperate mother reached out to medics in neighbouring South Africa, who agreed to operate Khomazana for free in a private Johannesburg clinic.
Nine-year-old Rodwell Khomazana lost his nose, left eye, most of his upper lip, parts of his forehead and other parts of his face when the animal attacked him outside Zimbabwe's capital Harare on May 2.
"Rodwell unfortunately will have multiple scars on his face. What we are hoping to do is a procedure where we minimise as much as possible the scoring, and also give him some semblance of a face that he could live and to interact with other children and adults with and feel like a normal boy " said Ridwan Mia, the plastic surgeon.
Being South African we come from a humane, we come from a background of Ubuntu, and this is something we all learn in our training, in our upbringing you know, and this is part of it."
According Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority,, wild animals have killed at least 60 people last year.
Hyena frequently prey on cattles, attacks like this are common this time of year, when the climate is dry and animals move into communities in search of food and water.
I hope they can do something.
Tragic.
I didn’t realize the vice president had traveled to South Africa.
As our guide for the Kruger National Park checked js in one morning at one of the offices along the perimeter of the park, the TV in the office had the local news on A local school child had been snatched, dragged off and killed as he walked with his friends on the way to school. We were told this was not an uncommon event.
This poor boy! Praying that the can rebuild his face.
As our guide for the Kruger National Park checked us in one morning at one of the offices along the perimeter of the park, the TV in the office had the local news on. A local school child had been snatched, dragged off and killed by a leopard as the child was walking to school with a group of his friends. We were told this was not an uncommon event. Somehow I doubt that school is a gun free zone.
How did Kamala get out of her cage?
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“I didn’t realize the vice president had traveled to South Africa.”
Actually they’ve managed to hang on to their First World medical system, at least for those who can afford it. An immigrant friend of mine from Central Africa immediately sent his father there when he got sick back in the old country.
LOL
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