Six-year-old Mohammed Mohammed, who was rescued from child traffickers last month, has survived a surgical process carried out to save him from a medical condition called pyomyositis.
Pyomyositis is a bacterial infection of the muscles which results in an abscess (buildup of pus in the body).
The boy developed the condition from the trauma of beating that he received from the child traffickers from whom he and 12 other children were rescued from Anambra State where they were taken to after they were abducted from Adamawa State.
The boy was diagnosed with the condition in the course of the 13 children being attended to at the Specialist Hospital, Yola, where they were taken after their rescue.
The hospital gave an update on Monday when the Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapha Farauta visited the boy.
Farauta told journalists during the visit that little Mohammed had to be sponsored for surgeries in his two thighs to remove the abscess formed as a result of the beating he received.
“We are here on a follow-up of the young boy that was rescued after being stolen from their parents and sold to someone in Anambra State.
“Initially, we brought them for medical screening and it was at that point the boy was admitted,” Farauta explained.
The Medical Director of the Specialist Hospital, Dr. Dauda Wadinga, assuring that the boy was responding well to treatment, disclosed that in the course of the surgeries on the boy, two litres of fluid was removed from the two thighs.
DAILY POST recalls that the Adamawa State Government, through the office of the deputy governor, sponsored a security investigation on the trafficking of the 13 children.
The investigation took security personnel to Lagos, Anambra and some other states before the children were found and rescued from Anambra State three weeks ago.
Aged between 5 and 9 years, the children were abducted from different parts of Adamawa State and sold to a buyer in Nnewi, Anambra State.
Investigation of the matter led to the arrest of a 45-year-old, Mrs. Ngozi Abdulwahab, a resident of Yola who was found to have sold the children to a 65-year-old, Mrs. Uche Okoye of Kabuku, Nnewi.
