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How doctors re-implanted 16-year-old chopped off penis in landmark surgery

Dr Nangole Wanjala (Left) and Prof Stanley Khainga, the lead senior doctors in the first ever penis reattachment surgery in the country.

It took doctors seven hours to reconnect a boy’s penis that had been chopped off last December.

The surgery was as delicate as the organ is, and required 15 specialists working through the bloody wound, trying to re-connect the veins and nerves.

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