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Shock as doctors remove 13 needles from a 10 old month baby’s buttocks

Jacinta Ndunge holding her 10 moth old daughter Jane Wairimu [Photo: Kamau Maichuhie]
  • Doctors are baffled after they pulled out 13 needles from baby’s buttocks
  • An X-ray revealed 14 sewing needles were lodged in the little girl’s buttocks
  • They fear removing the remaining one as it may injure the child’s nerves and blood vessels

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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