Dr Richard sent this update about one of our patients on Hope Ward:
I was just going home before Easter w/e when I met little Zainab and her mother. She’s come back fom her home in Hoima (north western Uganda) for more skin grafting. She was brought to us before Christmas, sponsored by Stanbic Bank, because her T-shirt caught on fire in the kitchen at home and she got awful burns to the top half of her body (fortunately not her face). She had contractures to both elbows so that her arms were completely bent and useless. Our star plastic surgeon Dr Ben straightened her arms and did lots of skin grafting but eventually we ran out of skin on her legs to graft and so she went, after 3 months in IHK, home to heal up a bit. And now she’s back for more grafting. Childrens injury statistics I think are fearful in Uganda. Its not really surprising with charcoal or wood burning cooking and 7-8 children per family . Hard to keep an eye on them all!
and here is Zaniab with her friend Dennis playing together on the ward
