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Kenyan doctors re-attach boy’s severed hand

By  Elizabeth Merab

Health reporter

Nation Media Group

Two weeks ago, a young man was wheeled into Kenya's top referral Kenyatta National Hospital’s Accident and Emergency room writhing in pain.

The 17-year-old Joseph Theuri’s right hand was severed at the wrist while cleaning a chaff cutter used for cutting straw or hay for farm animals.

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