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Doctors at Thika Level Five Hospital successfully removed 13 of 14 needles that were lodged in buttocks of 10-month-old baby

Jacinta Ndunge holding her daughter Jane Wairimu at Thika Level 5 Hospital. [PHOTO BY KAMAU MAICHUHIE.]

Doctors at Thika Level Five Hospital have successfully removed 13 of 14 needles that were lodged in the buttocks of a 10-month-old baby.

The surgery has, however, left doctors at the hospital baffled and trying to figure out how the 14 sewing needles ended up lodged inside the toddler’s body.

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