How we fund emergency operations

Emergency operations

As well as funding life saving and life changing operations we also fund emergency surgery.  For some of our patients it could be because of an accident such as burns from a cooking fire and for others it will be a condition thats suddenly deteriorated such as a hernia and requires emergency surgery.

In 2018 a study revealed just 25% of Uganda’s population can reach emergency surgery within two hours. It leaves a large part of the population, particularly in rural areas lacking transport, unable to reach safe and timely surgery with walking or cycling to the nearest health centre the only option.

Yet, ‘the golden hour’ used to describe the crucial period when life-saving medical or surgical interventions can offer the highest chance of survival for a traumatically injured or sick patient.

At the hospitals where we work we use the money donated to our Universal Fund to pay for any emergency operations for children whose families cannot afford to pay it.

1.75 billion children currently lack access to safe surgery.