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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Medical manufactureres have a big heart for African children


In the last seven days five lives have been saved and several traumatic facial lacerations which transected the tear duct system, lips, ears, nose and /or the eyelid have been repaired.  The patients saved were mostly children, including a three year old girl with a deep neck abscess which caused airway obstruction, a child who choked on a groundnut necessitating removal of four pieces from both bronchi, a two- year girl with a coin stuck in her esophagus for five days, a twenty year old student with a fish bone lodged in her esophagus and a thirty-five year old road traffic accident victim with upper airway obstruction from a fractured mandible and severe head trauma. The equipment necessary to save these children who aspirated or ingested foreign bodies were donated by the major medical manufacturers. Due to instruments breakage we are at a minimum of the Hopkin-rod telescopes and telescopic forceps which are used in removal. A repaired telescopic forceps, which the manufacturer kindly repaired free of charge, should arrive this week.
 
 
 
Scrub nurse, child who ingested a coin and child with deep neck infection and upper airway obstruction.
 

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