By Linah Benyawa
Mombasa, Kenya: A-72-year-old man from Kwale whose private part was re-attached by surgeons a week ago after a vicious attack by assailants has died at the Coast General Hospital.
Ali Tembea died on Tuesday morning and doctors at the hospital are yet to determine the cause of his sudden death. Hospital authorities have said an autopsy will be carried out to establish the cause of death even after doctors had hailed what they considered a successful operation.
Relatives who were at his bedside the night before he died said Tembea was hallucinating and shouting and they, together with the nurses, could not figure out what he was saying.
“He was mumbling and we did not understand what he was talking about,” said his daughter, identified only as Mwanaisha.
The hospital administration described his death as “a shock” and promised a full investigation. His death comes barely two weeks after a secondary school student from Tana Delta also succumbed to his injuries at the same institution, a day after surgeons removed an arrow from his skull.
Despite reattaching Tembea’s organ, doctors had said it would take time to establish if he could regain all functions of his genital.
