Video: Kenyan doctors reattach man’s severed foot

Doctors at the Coptic Hospital successfully reattached a man’s foot after it was cut off in an accident.

The surgery, that is the first of its kind in Eastern and Sub-Saharan Africa, took 11 hours and was performed by 18 doctors.

“It’s a very rare surgery even worldwide,” said Dr. Ferdinand Nangole, a microvascular surgeon.

The same team is the one that recently reattached another patient’s severed hand at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

“I am very very happy,” the patient Wael Abdegawad Ibrahim said. The Egyptian national survived a road accident that killed his friend in Embu. They had been travelling from Meru when the fatal incident occurred.

Doctors at the Embu Level Five Hospital stabilised him and froze his foot in a cool box as they transferred him to Nairobi.

“He struggled and carried the amputated foot himself to the Embu hospital. He was desperate to save it,” Dr, Sakr Samah said.