Surgeons to reconstruct face of boy, 9, after Zimbabwe hyena attack

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Plastic surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of a nine-year-old Zimbabwean boy mauled by a hyena in an attack last month.

Rodwell Khomazana lost his nose, left eye, most of his upper lip, bits of his forehead and other parts of his face when he was attacked during a night-time church service outside Harare on May 2.Doctors in one of the city's main public hospitals did the best they could to patch him up and stabilise his condition, but lacked the resources to fully repair his ravaged face.

"When she mentioned the story of this poor child mauled by a hyena I couldn't say no," plastic surgeon Ridwan Mia told AFP earlier this week. Staff sing and cheer after the arrival of Rodwell Khomazan at the Mediclinic Sandton Hospital where he will undergo surgery to reconstruct his face AFP/GUILLEM SARTORIO

They will use tissue from other parts of his body to reconstruct his jaw, nose, mouth and cheeks. He will also be fitted with a prostatic eye."What we are hoping to do is a procedure where we minimise ... the scarring," he explained.

 

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