Two children are currently hospitalised in Molo sub-county hospital after eating chameleons prepared by their elder brother.
These two, of age 4 and 2 respectively are from Nyakinyua village in Sirikwa ward Kuresoi North constituency.
They were rushed to the hospital by their mother after found them unconscious after she returned home from where she had gone to work inorder to make ends meet.
Joyce Chemng’etich who is the mother of the two said that her seven-year-old son opted to cook the chameleons to add to the few potatoes they had for food.
The mother became aware of the situation after coming across two heads of chameleons in a sufuria.
She reported that when asked the seven year old son why he had prepared chameleons for his siblings, he told me it was because of hunger.
The neighbours around this family performed first aid on the children before they were rushed to a nearby clinic in the village.
Then the doctors referred them to Molo sub-county hospital, where the two were admitted, and their progress monitored.
The neighbours revealed that the mother is a hustler, and she does small manual jobs to cater for the family.
Molo sub-county medical superintendent, Benard Warui has confirmed that the two children are stable and responding well to medication.
The public has been called up to move in unison and support the single mother of nine.
