Wahida was travelling to attend a funeral to Uganda from Kenya [her home is in Kenya] in a multi seater car when they were hit by a heavy vehicle. Wahida was hit hard in the right knee. She also sustained other minor injuries. She was taken to a hospital in Uganda where she was operated and advised rest for at least one month. The doctors cautioned that if you travel, you will have internal bleeding. But not feeling well there, Wahida returned to Kenya.
Life was becoming difficult for the mother of two young children. She also could not manage her business. Doctors in Kenya did a surgery after which she had to do physiotherapy.
A year later [in September 2013] she found that she was still in pain. At that time a team of doctors from Shalby Hospitals was conducting a check up camp in Kenya. So she consulted them and they told her to continue the physiotherapy. But if she was to be operated, the doctors said, she had to be operated in Shalby Hospitals, a centre of excellence for bone and joint diseases.
Came August 2014 and yet she was not better. She remembered she had met Shalby’s doctors the previous year. So she again contacted Shalby’s office in Kenya and again visited Shalby’s camp and got a consultation. This time she was advised to get operated in Shalby Hospital, Ahmedabad, India.
Arthroscopy Surgeon Dr Dhaval Sagala did a very difficult surgery because the knee was operated many times before. Operating on failed surgeries is very difficult because of old fibrosis and adhesions. He first painstakingly removed the improperly fixed nail and put in another nail in the correct position to fix her torn ligament to the bone. It was done through a very small opening through the Arthroscope.