New development for ReSurge Africa: Sierra Leone
Reconstructive Surgery at Holy Spirit Hospital (Makeni)
Holy Spirit Hospital
Courtyard between wards
After hand surgery
Operating theatre at HSH
Theatre staff at HSH
Theatre staff at HSH
Following a disastrous civil war, Sierra Leone lacks basic medical care. Now at peace, but without resources, the country requires help to train local people to treat disfigurement and disability caused by the war as well as by disease and malformation.
Conditions are desperate and ReSurge Africa is committed to help.
Holy Spirit is a small, well run hospital in Makeni (a town more or less in the centre of the country). This hospital is the nucleus of our efforts. Collaboration with the Italian charity ‘Fondazione Don Gnocchi’ has allowed us to make a start in establishing care for the maimed and damaged patients desperately needing reconstructive surgery.
British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) has funded this charity's work in Sierra Leone and we are extremely grateful for their generosity.
There remains much to be done, but the focus is directed towards training and enabling local health professionals to treat these patients.
To find out more about the Holy Spirit Hospital, please visit their website
Main Photo: Mother and child, following cleft surgery Holy Spirit Hospital, Makeni, Sierra Leone November 2010. ©Anna Nava.
