By Sheree Bega
A distraught Gauteng mother is suing provincial health authorities for maiming her daughter.
She took her two-year-old daughter to hospital to be treated for burns on her hands, but the girl left with both feet amputated.
And Celina Kometsi won't be swayed after Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu's visit to her Daveyton home on Friday - two months after the horrific incident - where she vowed to get to the bottom of the tragedy that crippled little Thembisa Nikelo for life after poor treatment at Far East Rand Hospital in Springs and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
Kometsi, a dressmaker, believes the intravenous drips that staff at Far East Rand Hospital inserted into her daughter's feet caused the gangrene that turned them into blackened stumps.
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"I'm still busy with my lawyer," Kometsi told the Saturday Star after the MEC's visit. "I don't trust what they (the government) are promising."
Kometsi said the toddler burnt her hands on September 15 when she accidentally plunged them into boiling bathwater in the family's shack. Her mother rushed her to the nearby Phillip Moyo Clinic, which transferred her to Far East Rand Hospital.
"There was no treatment. They just wrapped her burns and gave her Panados."
Her daughter then developed diarrhoea and vomited. "They gave her a powder for it, but couldn't explain what it was. She still had diarrhoea."
On September 18, nurses inserted a drip into one of her feet and then another containing blood into her other foot. They also administered two drips containing fluid in her foot, which lasted three hours.
"My daughter was rolling around on the bed. She started getting pains. Her feet were swollen and started to turn purple. I was worried as she was in a bad condition."
She later found out that her daughter had been transferred to Charlotte Maxeke on September 20.
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