Wajir woman has a knife stuck in her skull after domestic violence.

Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital were on Thursday evening racing to save the life of a woman who was critically injured in a domestic row in Wajir on Wednesday.

Ms Fatuma Ibrahim, 32, suffered stab wounds in her thigh, abdomen and arms, but the horror of the attack was a knife through her skull that doctors at Wajir Referral Hospital could not remove, and which prompted the transfer to KNH.

Dr Mohammed Hussein, speaking to the Nation at the Wajir Airstrip on Thursday evening, said Ms Ibrahim was taken to the Wajir hospital at 2am yesterday with a knife sticking from the left side of her face.

She arrived at the hospital nine hours after she was assaulted. Even though she had bled profusely, she was in a stable condition.

“We stabilised her and then attempted to remove the knife, but we stopped when we realised that could lead to more bleeding that could suffocate and ultimately kill her,” said Dr Hussein.

An X-ray image of Ms Ibrahim’s head showed the knife entering her skull on the right side and the tip of the blade exiting on the left.

Dr Hussein said his team could have pulled out the knife, but his hospital does not have an intensive care facility that could stabilise the mother of four should the need arise, hence the emergency call to KNH.

The knife appeared to have gone through her nasal cavity, with the blade missing her left eye by a few inches.

Pulling out the blade ran the risk of flooding her respiratory system with blood, hence the caution.

A few minutes past 6pm, Ms Ibrahim was wheeled into an Amref rescue plane that would deliver her to Wilson Airport in Nairobi where an ambulance was to take her to KNH. knife