With the help of Doctors Tuopar and Cammilari, maxillofacial surgeons from the United Kingdom, we reconstructed a young woman’s nose, which was damaged by an electrical burn. Some readers may find certain photos upsetting, so I will post one of her after she has healed. Her reconstructed nose is looking good and today she smiled for the first time. The defect caused her psychological trauma; perhaps her husband left her for he has not been seen.
The four-year old who ruptured his eye when he was run over by a motorcycle has done well and he now has vision in that eye.
Poverty makes work difficult. Tamale Teaching Hospital cannot afford to purchase alcohol for disinfection, to replace the broken bulb for our only operating room light, or to pay my nurses to travel to the schools for the deaf to take ear impressions in preparation to be fitted with donated hearing aids. Very poor patients who cannot afford the cost of the national health insurance do not receive any financial aid. When we request assistance for such a patient’s care, the social service department simply writes to benefactors asking them to help. I have seen this process to be successful only once.
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Glad to hear that the 4-year-old boy and the young woman are doing well. And the kids look happy in their soccer jerseys.
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