Isaac after going through what doctors termed as “destructive surgery” on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2019[/caption] The five-year-old boy whose step mother inflicted machete wounds on his arm and left it to rot has successfully undergone amputation surgery at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Doctors say Isaac Mensah’s condition is now stabilised and is responding to treatment after going through an hour “destructive surgery” Wednesday morning, our correspondent Thomas Cann reported. “His chances of survival, going home and being fine and going back to school is almost 100 per cent… I don’t have any doubt that he’s going to be fine,” head of surgery at the Hospital, Martin Mornah told our correspondent after surgery. Though many people feared the boy’s entire left arm was going to be amputated, surgeons only removed the hand (from the fingers to the wrist area). According to them, it has been done so that in future he could use “functional prosthesis”. Dr. Mornah said a normal prosthesis will in the meantime be fixed on the hand, saying “of course we can make a prosthesis for him” but noted it will not be a functional one because that is “expensive”. “I’m glad it is his left arm, not the right arm but you need both arms to be able to be very functional so this child has been hurt very badly,” Dr Mornah observed. He said little Mensah was lucky that the machete did not cut his artery because that would have been disastrous. “If he had severed an artery, he would have died; the bleeding would have been so much…this is an unnecessary problem the child has suffered.
3news.com on Tuesday broke the story of how 22-year-old woman was said to have accidentally inflicted cutlass wound on the left arm of the stepson about a month ago at Ahomfie, a village near Abura Dunkawa and left it untreated. [caption id="attachment_112397" align="aligncenter" width="900"]
