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Parents of child with coin stuck in his throat desperate as doctors still on strike
Three-and-a-half-year-old Samson Kaingu who has a coin stuck in his thoat (right, x-ray) with his parents, Mwangiri Kaingu Chakwe and Riziki Tsuma. With the ongoing doctors’ strike, they have been unable to get help from public hospitals yet they cannot afford to pay for an operation in private hospitals. PHOTOS | WINNIE ATIENO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The child can neither eat solid foods nor excrete.
- Efforts by the parents to seek help from public hospitals in the county have been futile due to doctors’ strike.
- At Coast Provincial General Hospital, surgery services have been paralysed by the strike.
- His mother, Riziki Tsuma, says the child cries all night.
The health of three-and-a-half-year-old child in Bamburi area, Mombasa County is quickly deteriorating after swallowing a coin that got stuck in his throat two weeks ago.
The child can neither eat solid foods nor excrete.
