IV feet amputation

Intravenous news: iol.co.za report “A distraught Gauteng mother is suing provincial health authorities for maiming her daughter. She took her two-year-old daughter to hospital to be treated for burns on her hands, but the girl left with both feet amputated.

And Celina Kometsi won’t be swayed after Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu’s visit to her Daveyton home on Friday – two months after the horrific incident – where she vowed to get to the bottom of the tragedy that crippled little Thembisa Nikelo for life after poor treatment at Far East Rand Hospital in Springs and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

Kometsi, a dressmaker, believes the intravenous drips that staff at Far East Rand Hospital inserted into her daughter’s feet caused the gangrene that turned them into blackened stumps.

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