O R G A N I Z I N G H
E L P F O R M A
J O R O P E R A T I O N S
Problems
in organizing help for major operations
Our Dispensary received many minor and major surgical cases for
consultation. Majority faced a problem with either the Government
hospitals or the Private hospital. In the former there was delay
in both preoperative preparations and booking date for surgery.
In the later there was a problem of affordability. We could only
perform minor surgeries at the dispensary level. We struggled to
help individual cases by counselling their family to raise funds
for surgery which we could organise in the private hospitals. Many
of them we had to request a discount from the private hospital.
The private hospitals though sympathetic could only accept few for
they are business institutions which operate under tension of the
running costs and tax payment. Therefore they could not help in
larger scale. We thank them for the support they could give and
their inspirations they gave us towards development of this project
proposal. Our project will fill the gap between overburdened government
service and inability of the private hospitals to accept charity
support to wider spectrum.
An example of such a hospital is Mama Ngoma Health centre among
a few others.
Unforgettable example of the patient we could assist in such arrangement
was a 22 years old sickler who suffered for abdominal pain for treated
as sick ling crisis in a district hospital. When referred to Dar
es salaam he was discovered to have Gall bladder stones. It was
recommended for referral to India for laparoscopic cholecystectomy
but parents could not afford. We counselled the patient to accept
open cholecystectomy which we successively did for an affordable
cost at Mama Ngoma health centre.
Removed Gall bladder embedded with black bilirubinstones.
The father of the patient and the patient with surgeon and theatre
nurse attendant during the day of departure from the hospital.
An example of such a hospital is Mama Ngoma Health centre among
a few others.