Mohammed Mohammed, a six-year-old who was saved from child traffickers last month, has recovered from surgery that was performed to treat pyomyositis.
A bacterial infection of the muscles called pyomyositis causes an abscess, or accumulation of pus in the body.
The boy’s condition was brought on by the trauma of being beaten by child traffickers, from whom he and twelve other children were rescued after being kidnapped from Adamawa State and taken to Anambra State.
After the 13 children were rescued, they were taken to the Specialist Hospital in Yola, where the boy was diagnosed with the condition.
When Adamawa State Deputy Governor Professor Kaletapha Farauta visited the boy on Monday, the hospital provided an update.
During the visit, Farauta informed reporters that Mohammed, who was quite young, needed financial assistance for surgeries to remove an abscess that had developed in both of his thighs as a result of the abuse he endured.
The young boy who was saved after being taken from his parents and sold to a person in Anambra State is the subject of our follow-up.
Farauta clarified, “We first brought them for a medical screening, and that’s when the boy was admitted.”
Assuring that the boy was responding well to treatment, the Specialist Hospital’s medical director, Dr. Dauda Wadinga, revealed that two liters of fluid were extracted from the boy’s two thighs during the surgery.
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