More patient stories from CoRSU
30th July, 2017
Thank you to George Galliwango (head of plastic and reconstructive surgery at CoRSU hospital) for the following patient stories:
Nabiryo
Nabiryo was unable to close her left eye. As a baby, she was crawling and fell into a hot iron, which burnt her, and left her with scars that prevented her eye closing. She was orphaned as a child, and could not afford surgery. Interface helped her to pay for her surgery at CoRSU hospital. She can now close her eye.
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Use of bottles for babies with clefts
22nd July, 2017
This is the Questionnaire that Jane Sibley developed with Karen Devaraj to determine the effectiveness of the bottles and teats that Interface has been sending out to CoRSU. Bertha (nutritionist at CoRSU) has filled it out, and it seems very beneficial to keep sending them.
Use of soft bottles and teats at CoRSU by babies with a cleft
Annual Information Evening 2017
12th July, 2017
Thank you to everyone who managed to get to our Information Evening this year. Helen Anderson introduced the evening and the speakers, and gave an overview of the charity. We then had a great speaker – Dom Hazell, who is a physiotherapist at the RD&E hospital. He and his wife spent time at Kagando hospital in February this year, and Dom fed back a very thought-provoking view of the hospital – the struggles it has financially with equipment [...]