Post by 50cents on Jan 18, 2006 16:39:40 GMT 3
class in kenya as jiggers whose main concern is to satisfy nobody but their own?
From the police to the statehouse. Gosh!!
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Where jiggers is mentioned, replace it with the government and compare the two characters.
Help! Jiggers afoot
By Agencies
Do you believe that jiggers can target parts of the body other than legs?
All has not been well with Hana Nduta, a four year old girl in Nyeri’s Gatung’ang’a village Ngorano location, Mathira division, Nyeri district.
As she sat on the bare floor of a collapsing two roomed grass thatched mud house, Nduta and her five siblings Joseph Mukiri, Patrick Mureithi, Gerald Maina, Festus Kinyua and Anthony Kariuki Nduta knew she was very sick.
Like her siblings, Nduta has been crippled by jiggers. The children’s ages range between 2 and 19.
Though jiggers are known to mainly target legs, they have infested the siblings’ hands and other parts of their bodies, including the genitals.
Being too young to bear the pain, three of the children, Nduta, Mukiri and Mureithi often cry uncontrollably.
According to their parents, Charles Wamai and Mary Njoki, the children have been admitted for a day at Nyeri Provincial hospital with jigger wounds.
When they were discharged, the children were given an ointment, but the parents say the treatment did not help much.
The family lives in abject poverty on a piece of land hardly one eighth of an acre.
A full mealis almost unknown in the family.
A Kirinyaga based children’s officer. George Githaiga, told journalists he has informed his colleagues at Nyeri about the plight of the family
A retired social worker, Grace Ndung’u, says the condition is treatable.
She says the first step is to clean the affected parts with salty water. This forces out the pus from the wounds. Then the affected parts submerged into paraffin for ten minutes.
“Once the affected areas are out of the paraffin, apply grease on them and tightly cover them with polythene papers for at least 24 hours in order to deny the parasites breathing space. They die.”
This formula, she adds, “saves the sufferer the severe pain one feels when jiggers are removed from the body with sharp objects and the pus and infections that might result from this ancient method.”
After that, the house and the compound must be sprinkled with a concentrated solution of a special anti-flea chemical which is readily available in local pharmacies.
Ndungu says the prescription has worked well at the school where she had treated many pupils infested with jiggers.
From the police to the statehouse. Gosh!!
jukwaa.proboards58.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1137524221
Where jiggers is mentioned, replace it with the government and compare the two characters.
Help! Jiggers afoot
By Agencies
Do you believe that jiggers can target parts of the body other than legs?
All has not been well with Hana Nduta, a four year old girl in Nyeri’s Gatung’ang’a village Ngorano location, Mathira division, Nyeri district.
As she sat on the bare floor of a collapsing two roomed grass thatched mud house, Nduta and her five siblings Joseph Mukiri, Patrick Mureithi, Gerald Maina, Festus Kinyua and Anthony Kariuki Nduta knew she was very sick.
Like her siblings, Nduta has been crippled by jiggers. The children’s ages range between 2 and 19.
Though jiggers are known to mainly target legs, they have infested the siblings’ hands and other parts of their bodies, including the genitals.
Being too young to bear the pain, three of the children, Nduta, Mukiri and Mureithi often cry uncontrollably.
According to their parents, Charles Wamai and Mary Njoki, the children have been admitted for a day at Nyeri Provincial hospital with jigger wounds.
When they were discharged, the children were given an ointment, but the parents say the treatment did not help much.
The family lives in abject poverty on a piece of land hardly one eighth of an acre.
A full mealis almost unknown in the family.
A Kirinyaga based children’s officer. George Githaiga, told journalists he has informed his colleagues at Nyeri about the plight of the family
A retired social worker, Grace Ndung’u, says the condition is treatable.
She says the first step is to clean the affected parts with salty water. This forces out the pus from the wounds. Then the affected parts submerged into paraffin for ten minutes.
“Once the affected areas are out of the paraffin, apply grease on them and tightly cover them with polythene papers for at least 24 hours in order to deny the parasites breathing space. They die.”
This formula, she adds, “saves the sufferer the severe pain one feels when jiggers are removed from the body with sharp objects and the pus and infections that might result from this ancient method.”
After that, the house and the compound must be sprinkled with a concentrated solution of a special anti-flea chemical which is readily available in local pharmacies.
Ndungu says the prescription has worked well at the school where she had treated many pupils infested with jiggers.
