Mulanje woman Agnes Musolo inserted a stone in her birth passage on the day of her alleged delivery of the object on Monday last week, various eminent experts have established. But her husband Linston Musolo insisted yesterday that his wife was bewitched by he relations who are not happy with their marriage.
"Some people might say my wife inserted the stone, but I still believe it is witchcraft," Musolo said in an interview at the College of Medicine Guest Hous in Blantyre.
Pathologist Charles Dzamala, who was the first to adress journalists about their findings at the College of Medicine in Blantyre yesterday, said they had established that the object was a natural stone.
"I applied formic acid on the object to see if it would decalfy. Suprisingly, it decalfied within hours but some particles were intact. If it was a foetus or humn thing, it could have decalfied without leaving any particles," Dzamalala said.
He also said he had taken an initiative to take the cloth to Mapaeto DWSM Limited, a cotton cloth factory in Blantyre, southern part of Malawi, and said results concluded that it was natural cloth.
"we have proven beyond reasonable doubt that she was not pregnant. The woman was examined at Mulanje district Hospital, Mulanje Mission Hospital and by Gynecologist Joyce Munthali, all tests have proved that she was not pregnant," Dzamala said.
Taking her turn, Gynecologist Munthali told journalists that Agness was apprehensive.
"She was putting up her stomach, uterus was not swollen and there was no indication that the woman was preganant. But her cervix shows that she has been pregnant before,: Munthali said.
District Health office (DHO) for Mulanje John Chipolombwe said at the briefing that part of the stone that was outside her birth passage was dry.
"The quarter that was outside was completely dry. Cervix that remains open for sometime when one is giving birth cwas closed. The other part of the stone was wet but without blood and she had no briuses. The stone was on the (birth passage) and another part outside," said Chipolombwe, who earlier suspected foul play in the 'stone' delivery at his hospital.
According to Chiplombwe, the woman was just looking for a child. Director of Geological Survey Leonard Kalinakafe said his findings too revealed that it was a natural stone.
"We have established that it is an ordinary rock and they are available in her area. The stone has also been exposed to the atmosphere," said Kalindakafe.
An expert from Geological Survey Department said the stone weighed 179 grams and not 300 grams as it was earlier reported. Radiologist Sam Kampondeni, who was not present at the briefing, stated in his report tha there was no evidence of recent pregnancy or delivery.
"And there is no evidence of other gynecological disorders," Kam'ponden concludes. On his part, Physchologist Chiwoza Bandawe, who was not present at the briefing but just sent a note, said he was still providing physchological support to the family.
"There are current psycho-social stresses which need addressing and that (a) pyschologists is meeting them in an on going therapy and because of the professional relationship cannot ne present to comment," Banadawe's note reads.
The family has, however, said prayers were the only solution to their problem as they believed it was whitchcraft.
Musolo said he had changed his mind to divorce her Agnes saying: "it was not her fault."
Meanwhile Agnes has disputed the findings by the experts, insisting that he has been bewitched.
"I was bewitched, my relation told me that I will deliver a stone and indeed a stone came out during delivery, what I need are prayers," she said
Source: THE DAILY TIMES, Thursday, Jul 23, 2009
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