Dangerous Animal Incidents

[Peter Betts]

Seaview Park in PE >> European students who think they are helping Conservation. DONT support these places and Students do something else in your Gap year

[PJL]

The place should have been shut down years ago...

[Richprins]

Boy mauled by hyena in high spirits as doctors prepare for surgery
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Lwandile Bhengu

9-year-old Rodwell Khomazana was mauled




Nine-year-old Rodwell Khomazana, who was mauled by a hyena, arriving at the Mediclinic Sandton Hospital on 19 June 2021.


AFP PHOTO: Guillem Sartorio/AFP

SA healthcare workers rallied to raise funds for the boy and his mother to be flown into the country for surgery after the nine-year-old was attacked by a hyena while asleep at an all-night church gathering outside Harare, Zimbabwe, on 7 May.

At the weekend, a medical team travelled to Zimbabwe to fetch Nkomazana and his mother and on Monday morning, doctors at Mediclinic Sandton examined him in person for the first time.

"What we found was, after removing the dressings, was as overwhelming as we expected. [It's] quite an horrendous injury. This was a big trauma... the left eye was enucleated, so the eyeball was removed by the surgeons in Zimbabwe because it was so badly crushed and damaged," Mia explained.

Mia previously told News24 that because of the injures Nkomazana sustained, he would need multiple surgeries over a period of time. Apart from missing an eye, the boy will need a complete reconstruction of his nose, upper lip, and part of his cheeks.

Nkomazana has already had a tube put into his trachea to help with breathing, and on Tuesday, a feeding tube will be put into his tummy in preparation for the face surgery.

Mia said that they are expecting to begin surgery towards the end of this week. "Essentially [we will be] putting plates into the left sarcoma or the left cheek area and filling the floor of the orbit. [We will also be] putting in a prosthetic device that will allow us to cover what will look like an eye to mimic to the right eye so that his two eyes will look similar at a glance, although it won't be functional," said Mia.

"Then the big reconstruction will probably happen during the next week. We will have to finalise the days, but we're going to use some tissue from his thigh - what you would call a free flap - and bring that up to reconstruct the upper lip part of the nose, and we will use the remaining part of his forehead as well, to cover that nose, and then use some cartilage from his chest," he added.

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafri ... y-20210622

[Lisbeth]

Poor boy!......but also lucky that there are still people caring for their fellow human beings

[Richprins]

Dwarf was attacked by a baboon male at his place in Marloth Park on Sunday!

It was inside the house stealing, but left through the front door. Dwarf picked up the fruit then went to see where it had gone, and it came back and went for him OUTSIDE, without provocation!

The baboon got him on the back of the shouder. It is amazing how sharp the teeth are. 10cm gash, quite deep. He went to the local little clinic but it was closed and they did not answer the emergency number.

Eventually an ambulance took him to Nelspruit Mediclinic, and he went into the operating theatre on Sunday night, staying for observation until Wednesday.

There are conflicting reports about whether the baboon has been caught and euthanised yet...

CAUTION!

[harrys]

Did the Baboon have a knife

[Richprins]

Two in mouth!

[Lisbeth]

What a shocking experience The attack was probably worse than the actual bite. There ought not to be hyenas in Marloth

Please give him my best wishes for a speedy recovery

It is not a good thing that you cannot get immediate help in a place like that I hope that his tetanus is up to date

[Richprins]

It was a baboon, Lis! He got tetanus and rabies shots...one has to have a whole series for rabies, never knew!

[Lisbeth]

A typo

Looking at the teeth it is obvious that an attack from a baboon is no light business Luckily Tinywarf was not lying around