Good news for taxi drag victim

Good news for taxi drag victim:
A month after a minibus taxi dragged advocate Kim McCusker hundreds of metres up a road in Sandton, the first skin transplants appear to have been successful.

Johannesburg - A month after a minibus taxi dragged advocate Kim McCusker hundreds of metres up a road in Sandton, the first skin transplants appear to have been successful.

Skin from the back of McCusker’s thigh was transferred a week ago to both elbows.

It would appear that the transplants were successful and McCusker would receive more skin transplants this week, said her uncle, Willem Hijbeek.

Her bandages were on Tuesday changed for the first time while she was conscious. It was previously done only under sedation.

She was being kept in the ICU of Fourways Hospital since September 13 to avoid a possible infection after taxi driver Matome Thamage allegedly hit McCusker with his taxi and dragged her along the road.

It was revealed on Tuesday that an investigation is pending into an incident in which the same taxi hit a child. It was reported three weeks ago that Thamage in July also hit another child in Diepsloot.