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LIVE-SAVING SURGERY AND SUSTAINABLE CARE MENTORSHIP.
Financial constraints are a major factor limiting access to surgical care in Western Kenya. Many hospitals lack even the most basic surgical supplies, and not enough trained surgeons and surgical staff are available.
AMPATH is responding to these challenges with cost-effective, high-impact ways to provide quality surgical care to those who need it most. And more than meeting today’s needs, we’re helping train tomorrow’s surgical leaders through research, training, and hands-on mentorship.
1st
Kidney transplant performed in Western Kenya at Moi University
9
Operating theaters at Moi Teaching & Referral Hospital for surgical procedures
56 million+
People in sub-Saharan Africa currently need surgery
AREAS OF FOCUS
YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
$15
Ultrasound for one patient
$45
Biopsy testing and results
$100
Cleft lip and/or palate repair for a child
$250
Complete pre-operative, operative, and post-operative care of a patient with a disfiguring head and neck tumor
LATEST NEWS ON SURGERY
A team from Indiana University School of Medicine spent a week in March at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital holding a surgery teaching “camp” to begin the process of training the Kenyan team in ERCP* and other advanced and therapeutic endoscopy procedures.
Twenty-year-old Monica had just begun college classes when she began feeling chest pain and shortness of breath while walking the short distance between her classes. In December, Monica underwent successful triple valve surgery to replace her severely damaged aortic and mitral valves as well as to repair her leaking tricuspid valve.
Although Kenyan surgical registrar (resident) Dr. Beryl Munda often found herself completely lost in the Indianapolis campus hospitals, her AMPATH educational exchange experience convinced her she was in exactly the right place professionally.
SIGN Fracture Care has selected MTRH as the first location for the new SIGN Spine program to address spine trauma in low- and middle-income countries.
People in western Kenya in need of heart valve replacements and other cardiac procedures will soon have increased access to the lifesaving surgery they need.
The AMPATH surgery team participated in a prototype showcase for the Global Surgical Training Challenge to demonstrate their progress in development of the AMPATH Surgical App (ASAP) to train clinicians who are expected to perform open appendectomies.