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Teenager on recovery path after cut hand is reattached

Joseph Theuri holding a chaff cutter that cut his hand. The hand is recovering well, after he underwent surgery at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) four months ago. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Doctors have advised him to minimise movement of his reattached hand until they give him the nod. However, 17-year-old Joseph Theuri can’t help but do some work at home.

Theuri says he still goes around the compound moving this and that using his left hand. He is not using the replanted hand, which has just started regaining sensation. 

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