X-ray shows horror of freak gardening fork injury that killed two-year-old boy
dailystar.co.ukREAD NOW: Desperate Putin could unleash skin-melting chemical weapons to turn Ukraine warA fork jembe is a tilling tool used in agriculture, typically used to loosen soil prior to planting or sowing.One of the huge teeth on the piece of equipment became lodged in the boy's skull when he was allegedly hit with it by one of his siblings.Public uproar took over social media platforms after it emerged that doctors at the Kenyatta National Hospital had not tended to the boy quick enough, leaving the metal lodged in his skull.
The boy was admitted at around 6pm on Monday, October 10, with a promise that he would be taken to theatre, but for 20 hours, he was under observation after being transferred to KNH from a smaller hospital, his family said.But the hospital responded with a statement from their communications department saying the procedure might have been dangerous if they didn't get the timing right.The statement said earlier on Tuesday, before the boy died: “Our attention has been drawn to the story circulating online regarding a child admitted at KNH with a fork lodged in his skull.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.“The patient had lost a lot of blood and as a result, the clotting process was not occurring as expected, thereby, delaying the surgical procedure as this would have been dangerous to the patient.
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