Woman Burnt Over An SMS Appealing For Financial Aid To Have Her Get Medication.
The family of Pauline Mugure, the woman who was severely burnt
with a kerosene stove and boiling soup by her husband in September 2016 last
year, is appealing to well-wishers to help her raise funds to cater for her
expensive treatment.
Mugure, who currently in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), is
calling on Kenyans to assist her raise Ksh. 3million required for skin grafting
and plastic surgery.
“My mother is a peasant farmer and has other children to
take care of and we are unable to cater for my hospital bills,” said Mugure.
Mugure who was burnt by her husband in September last year
after a disagreement also called on the government to help her find her child
who the estranged husband ran away with.
She is now pleading with President Uhuru Kenyatta and his
government to come to her aid.
Her mother, Jane Wanjiku, narrated how she has been
struggling with her daughter from one hospital to another due to the doctors’
strike and insufficient fund to pay for medical fees in private hospitals.
“My daughter stayed at the ICU for over two months which was
very expensive and we depended on well-wishers to assist us. We don’t sleep
because she is in so much pain. I wish doctors could go back to work and help
reduce her suffering. I was forced to take her back home and since she was
suffering so much, I have been begging people for money. We have used the
little amount we have been getting to take her to various hospitals including
MP Shah, St. Mulumba and local clinics for dressing,” explained Wanjiku.
Wanjiku who lives in Muthara area Juja Sub-County says that it
is really torturous to helplessly see the pain that her daughter is going
through.
“We require Ksh. 3million for her reconstructive surgery. We
are poor and cannot be able to raise that kind of money,” said Wanjiku.
Anyone willing to assist can send their funds to the Pauline
Mugure Nyaga Paybill number 572184
or MPESA number 0798662804.
Mugure, 20, and a mother-of-one had sustained 20 degree
burns and 30% inhalation injury and also developed glottic stenosis—narrowing
of the vocal cords. A tracheostomy tube was surgically inserted in her
windpipe, through the neck, to create a hole that helps her breathe.
She remained in a coma for almost a month and a half after
being admitted at the hospital.
After this ugly incident, Mugure’s husband, Francis Kimani fled
with their 2 year old daughter.
Kimani, a bodaboda
operator, is alleged to have burned her after he saw a text message from
another man in her phone.
“He had come home
with meat and while I was cooking it he took my phone and found a text message
in which a male friend had invited me for a cup of tea. We quarreled and after
a few minutes he picked the stove, threw it at me and it exploded on my upper
body,” Mugure said in an earlier interview.
The mother of one was then taken to Thika Level 5 Hospital
and later referred to Kenyatta National Hospital, where she remained in a coma
for almost a month and a half. When
the doctors’ strike started on December 5th 2016, Mugure was
discharged and asked to go heal at home.
Consolata Muuru, a Good Samaritan who lost her daughter from
domestic violence, came to her rescue and took her to MP Shah Hospital.
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