An unsuccessful trial-and-error method adopted by a Wa-based herbalist has rendered a 13-year-old girl incapacitated for life, writes The Mirror.

The little girl, Amaita Seidu, was said to have fallen from a tree resulting in a fracture of her right arm and left leg, a reason for which her parents sought the assistance of a herbalist at Kulpkong in the Wa District to heal the broken limbs.

However, after several weeks of failed attempts by the herbalist to heal Amaita, her parents sent her to the Wa Regional Hospital where the medical officer who attended to her had no alternative than to amputate the limbs to save her life.

In an interview with The Mirror at Wa, Dr Edward Gyader, Medical Director in-charge of the Wa Regional Hospital, said Amaita fractured her left femur, right radius and ulna bones.

He said the herb used was toxic, thus causing severe necrosis of both limbs with severe infections.