Zimbabwean Boy Mauled By Hyena Leaves Hospital With New Face (Pics)

Younger Rodwell Khomazana’s face was left badly disfigured after a hyena mauled him. And now, 4 months since his ordeal, he’s been discharged from Sandton Mediclinic in Johannesburg – for now.

“Look, I’ve two eyes!” had been the primary phrases out of 9-year-old Zimbabwean Rodwell Khomazana’s mouth when he first noticed himself within the mirror late final month.

His face had been reconstructed in six operations, and he’d been fitted with a prosthetic left eye and nostril.

Rodwell was mauled by a hyena in Could this yr and this was the primary time because the traumatic incident that the little boy managed to smile at his look once more, says Dr Kim Barnard, a paediatric surgeon who’s been carefully concerned in Rodwell’s restoration.

The mere proven fact that the boy survived the brutal assault is a miracle in itself. Rodwell had been sleeping subsequent to his grandmother whereas attending an in a single day prayer assembly when the beast attacked. The injury was so intensive that his left eye needed to be eliminated. His nostril had been ripped off and his higher lip was torn to shreds.

Since his arrival in South Africa, he’s had surgical procedure to reconstruct his eye socket and cheek bones, as well as his higher lip.

He’s additionally been given a short lived prosthetic nostril and a everlasting prosthetic left eye. And now, 4 months since his ordeal, he’s been discharged from Sandton Mediclinic in Johannesburg – for now.

“Repeatedly the previous few months I’ve been stunned by how sturdy and resilient Rodwell is,” Dr Barnard says.

“His dedication and preventing spirit are exceptional – and he does it so gracefully.”