“Currently, my biggest concern is my health. I wish to get treatment so that I get good health and look after my family. Thank you in advance for your help,” says Kobusinge, a 24-year-old woman from Uganda.
“Kobusinge is married and a mother of two girls…She likes eating ripe bananas,” our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF), shares. “She farms to produce food for her family, but she has not been able to farm because of her pain. Kobusinge also sells second-hand clothes at the market every Saturday. Sometimes she leaves the market without selling anything. Her husband is not employed but looks after his two cows. He earns income through selling milk.”
After noticing a swelling on her abdomen above the belly button, Kabusinge began to experience severe pain. Kabusinge was diagnosed with an umbilical hernia – a condition in which the intestine protrudes through the abdominal muscles at the belly button. Once diagnosed, surgery was advised.
For $220 Kabusinge will receive a hernia repair. AMHF reports that after her surgery, “Kobusinge will be able to farm again with no pain. She will also no longer be at risk of intestinal obstruction, incarceration or strangulation.”