KNH have had a year to forget. Don't forget we are just in month 3, and they have had to close a hospital in developed countires. But this is Kenya, where the corrupt thrive and the honest are snacks for them.

But they did have one good story emerge this year, and that was about a boy whose hand was severed by a machine in January but had surgeons miraculously re-stitch it.

Joseph Theuri, 17, was given the green light to leave by the hospital as from Monday as his hand had regained much functionality, according to his guardian Virginia Gathoni.

But the issue the boy has is that he can't pay the money needed to pay the bill. The huge bill is for costs associated with occupational therapy fee, physiotherapy fee and two plastic surgery operations. The bill stands at Sh452,025 by 2pm on Tuesday, this week.

Theuri is an orphan who lost his parents early in life and Ms Gathoni, 40, has been raising him as her son at her home in Gachie, Kiambu County.

Ms Gathoni explained that her main source of income is dairy farming and she told that she cannot afford the pay the medical bill. She said:

"My business cant raise the fee. And it keeps increasing everyday until he leaves the ward."

Theuri, a Standard Seven drop-out, was cleaning a chaff cutter used to produce cow feed at Ms Gathonis home when the accident happened.

He was rushed to the Kiambu County Hospital, where a medic preserved the severed hand, then was taken by ambulance to KNH where a team of 15 would later perform what has been termed the first ever successful hand re-attachment in Kenya.

Theuri will go on being held in the hospital until the bill is paid.

Wellwishers can contact Ms. Gathoni on 0706877809.

Quotes courtesy of the Nation