24-year-old Sorng lives in Cambodia and sells wares at a local market. He studies English in his free time and hopes that his language skills will help him get a job that pays higher wages.
“Sorng has a perforated ear drum in his left ear after five years of recurrent ear infections,” explains our medical partner, Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC). “He also has bad hearing. Discharge occurs about three times each month, and it causes him pain.”
The recurrent ear infections are known as chronic otitis media. The perforation, or tear, in Sorng’s eardrum, results in hearing loss and discharge, or fluid, that drains from his middle ear.
For $399, doctors can perform a myringoplasty, a surgical procedure to repair the tear in Sorng’s eardrum. CSC tells us that after surgery, Sorng “will no longer have discharge, and his hearing will return after a while.”
Let’s help make that happen for Sorng!