Her name is Pwashikai Nideno. She is aged five and a proud survivor of a brutal attack by a two-man gang of suspected ritualists in Dong village of Adamawa State, which resulted in the mutilation of her vagina and intestine.
Even doctors who treated little Pwashikai, who was brought to the Yola Specialists Hospital on the morning of May 7th soaked in her own pool of blood - and her intestine dangling outside her body – expressed amazement at her tenacity for life. However, the good news is that four months after the acts of bestiality carried out on her, the little girl, whom doctors said needed a surgery to reconstruct her badly damaged vagina was, over the weekend, flown back into the country from Hansel Rock Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, where the vaginoplasty operation - a corrective surgery to reconstruct the vagina - was carried out. The surgery was made possible by donations from Nigerians moved by the plight of the child following media attention to her ordeal, led by NEXT.
The head surgeon at the Yola Specialists Hospital, Chuks Azubuike who led a team of doctors who carried out a set of two operations on the little girl to stabilise her upon admission, had expressed worry that the child’s family could not afford the necessary operation.
Little Pwashikai’s misfortune seemed to have occurred at a most inauspicious time, as her father was also at the time hospitalised at the Numan General Hospital and at the fringes of death. Family members had concealed the news of Pwashikai’s attack away from him for fear that the knowledge of the incident might further aggravate his already deteriorating medical condition and possibly hasten his death. He passed on a month afterwards, never knowing what befell his little daughter.
Upon publication of the attack, however, a horrified public quickly dug into their purse to restore her hope of womanhood....
Am happy that the girl has been treated and she is now recuperating.
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