Meet Mech, a 20-year-old woman from Cambodia. Our medical partner, Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) tells us, “Mech works in a garment factory and likes to study English in her free time. She lives alone and sends money back to her family in the countryside.”
CSC explains, “For the last ten years Mech has had chronic ear infections, which led to a perforated ear drum and consistent ear discharge. She was treated at another local hospital but her condition got worse.”
Mech has chronic otitis media, an infection of the middle ear. This condition impairs her hearing and causes discomfort and pain. Mech needs a myringoplasty—a procedure to close the perforation in her eardrum and drain excess fluid from the ear. This procedure costs $399 and CSC says that with it, “Mech will no longer have discharge and her hearing will improve.”
CSC shares, “Mech hopes that after her operation she can go back to work and hear other people better.”