JIGGERS.

KNA. THIKA                   3^rd Sept                                by Wangai. 

Thika East District Public Health Officer Lucy Thiga today led Community Health Workers in a major operation to treat over 200 children from jigger infestation in Ndula village in Kilimabogo town.

In a campaign dubbed operation jiggers out Thiga and her co-workers managed to fumigate 170 houses from cockroaches, jiggers’ bedbugs and other domestic pests.

She told KNA that the health workers also embarked on a door to door training on basic hygiene measures adding that 98% of the villages were casual workers with a very meager source of income.

Area residents pleaded with the health workers to provide them with chemicals to deal with what they termed as rat’s invasion saying that rats have invaded the village and were consuming their hard earned food. The complained that they were going through a very hard time to keep their surroundings clean as the area is currently experiencing an acute shortage of water.

Mwangi told the residents that the government was committed to eliminating domestic pests in all the villages adding that there were enough chemicals to deal with the menace.

She however called on the villagers to try and maintain basic cleanliness to keep the pests away.

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CHOPPED OFF.

KNA. THIKA.    3^rd.Sept                                      by Wangai.

A 50 year old man is admitted at the Thika level 5 Hospital nursing serious wounds after his private parts were chopped off by unknown assailants.

Michael Mutuku, who works as a farm hand at Kondo village in Yatta District told the press at his hospital bed how he was awoken by 2 men who claimed to be members of the area community policing at around 10.00 pm on pretext that his donkeys had escaped.

He innocently accompanied the two men, who then strangled him and injected him with an intoxicating substance; they then carried him back into his house bed where they severed his private parts.

Mutuku who appeared to be in much pain further explained how he woke up in the morning and noticed that he was bleeding profusely from his penis. He attempted to respond to a short call but realized that his private parts were missing.

He screamed loudly attracting his neighbors who responded quickly and took him to Matuu Sub-District Hospital but he was later transferred to the Thika Hospital.

His wife Mary Mutuku who accompanied several other relatives to the hospital was in shock when she realized what had befallen her husband and her only cry was whether anything could be done to rectify the condition.

A distraught Mutuku told the press that he thought that the assailants took his private parts for sale or for witchcraft.

A nurse in the male surgical ward Lydia Mwangi said that Mutuku was responding well to treatment but was badly traumatized and appeared to be confused and in a delirium. She said that the patient had a catheter inserted to assist him pass urine.

Mwangi was optimistic that with modern medical services reconstruction could be done out of the country after the wounds are healed.

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