The nine-year-old girl who spent nearly six months in the hospital after her stepmother literally boiled her hand in Goaso in the Ahafo area has been released from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
Health officials were alerted about Stephanie's failing hand late, amid worries that it could need to be amputated.
Her hand has been saved thanks to several operations and therapies that were mostly funded by the management of Mensin Gold Bibiani Limited and other contributors.
However, according to physicians, she would require a number of physiotherapy sessions to recover the use of some of her fingers.
"When she came for the first time, the hand was almost cooked. We had to improve the function of the hand and I think that we have been able to achieve that even though we did not get 100%.
"Now she will be able to use her fingers to grab something or write and then we will continue now with the hand physiotherapy to improve the function further. Maybe in the future, we may need to do a few corrective surgeries here and there, but now I think that what we have is quite satisfactory," the Head of the plastic surgery team at the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital, Dr Emil Tano noted.
Though relieved and appreciative of her release, Stephanie is concerned about the health of her hands right now.
"I want my fingers to be able to open wide," she told Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor.
Doctors tried their best to restore Stephanie's hands to normalcy, according to Esther Nyarko Boateng, a principal nursing officer in charge of KATH's D2C Burns Unit.
"We have been able to get this far, it is not the best though but it is one of the best results considering how the injury came. It came quite late so we could not do a lot for her," she stated.
She received donations from people like the accused's husband and the Wadoma Foundation.
Her surgery and maintenance were paid for by Mensin Gold Bibiani Limited.
"At Mensin, we look at some of these things that are heartbreaking that need intervention for the survival of the needy and the Board and Management were happy to support and make sure we provided the required support to make sure that Stephanie regains her hands," Sustainability Manager of the company, Emmanuel Aiddoo stated.
Stephanie's hands were placed in boiling water by the suspect, a female teacher at Goaso, for removing her ₵2 without authorization.
The teacher, Ellen Serwaa, was also charged with allowing Stephanie's injuries to worsen at home in the Ahafo regional town of Goaso for many days before seeking medical attention.
The lady at the centre of the abuse, who has since been in court, is still being prosecuted.