Success! Katungi from Uganda raised $230 to fund hernia repair surgery.

Katungi
$230
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$0
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Fully funded
Katungi's treatment was fully funded on July 11, 2021.
  • Katungi's story
  • Katungi's update
May 17, 2021

Photo of Katungi post-operation

July 1, 2021

Katungi underwent hernia repair surgery.

Following a successful hernia repair surgery, Katungi's health has been improving. He no longer has the pain from before, and his surgery re...

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Katungi's Timeline

  • May 17, 2021
    PROFILE SUBMITTED

    Katungi was submitted by Edward Mugane, Impact Assessment Coordinator at African Mission Healthcare.

  • May 19, 2021
    PROFILE PUBLISHED

    Katungi's profile was published to start raising funds.

  • May 22, 2021
    TREATMENT OCCURRED

    Katungi received treatment at Karoli Lwanga Hospital, Nyakibale in Uganda. Medical partners often provide care to patients accepted by Watsi before those patients are fully funded, operating under the guarantee that the cost of care will be paid for by donors.

  • July 1, 2021
    TREATMENT UPDATE

    Katungi's treatment was successful. Read the update.

  • July 11, 2021
    FULLY FUNDED

    Katungi's treatment was fully funded.

Funded by 7 donors

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Recheal is a 20-year-old from Kenya. She is studying in secondary school but has been unable to attend school for the last three months due to her condition. Recheal is the sixth born in a family of eleven children. Her parents are small-scale farmers, growing maize and beans for their family’s home use. Recheal does not have medical coverage, and her parents had to sell cattle and maize to raise Ksh 120,000.00 ($783) to cover her initial surgery costs. Recheal needs to undergo urgent surgery, and her family is requesting financial assistance. Recheal has been diagnosed with an abdominal bile leak that is causing her discomfort and pain. Her doctors have recommended surgery to ease the pain and enable her to resume her studies. She first experienced painful stomach swelling in August 2023. She visited a local health center and was treated for worms, which relieved her of pain for a while, but it recurred with time. She then visited our medical partner’s hospital for review. At the beginning of November, she received a CT scan that showed a liver cyst that required surgery. She underwent a laparotomy to remove the cyst on November 23rd. Four days later, the doctors identified a bile leakage that needed to be rectified. She is now scheduled for emergency surgery on November 28th to fix the fatal condition. African Mission Healthcare (AMH) is requesting $1,074 to fund this surgery. Recheal said, “I have missed school for three months now. This procedure will help ease stomach pain and enable me to return to school.”

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