SOUTH SUDAN: Mary Help Hospital Organizes Operation on Cliff Lips and Cliff Palate
Ginaba Lino
Mary Help Hospital, with support from BelaRisu foundation, Smiletrain organization and the State Ministry of Health and Environment have organized a four-days operations exercise on people with cliff lips and cliff palate in Wau.
Project Director of BelaRisu foundation Abdul hakim Kimani stated that their target was to operate 80 patients both children and adults but due to lack of doctors they could not be able to do so.
Kimani adds that out of the 80 patients they were targeting, they are going to operate fifty patients only because of lack of specialists in the country. So far, twenty-three (23) patients have been operated successfully.
Kimani says besides that, they also have program for orthodox teeth because the teeth of some of the patients need to be fixed.
“We also have another program for orthodox teeth. I know some of the patients have crocket teeth. We fix that also and it’s free of charge. These are subsequent programs that we will be doing and we are going to formulate proper follow-up system in this hospital where these patients can always come and get these services under our care and support”.
He says they mainly focus on Africa and their surgery services aim at giving patients their dignity so that they can leave a normal life.
“We do these surgeries for free in order to give the patients dignity so that they can leave a normal life and also to give them that freedom of working anywhere or interacting with people freely without fear of being marginalize or discriminated.”
He urges those who will be taking care of the patients to always keep the surgical area clean and give medicines to the patients on time.
“My message to those taking care of the patients is to make sure that the surgical area is clean and that the patient takes the medicines that were given.”
“We are going to arrange for other operations in two months to come because we have realized that there is high number of people in need of the service in Wau,” he adds.
He calls on anyone who will need their assistance to contact Mary Help Hospital for the assistance. The program started on July 5 and the operations ended on July 8 at Mary Help hospital in Wau.
Mary Help Hospital is a Catholic facility in the Catholic Diocese of Wau.
