• 9 Year old hernia patient - before the operation

    9 Year old hernia patient called Aminata (not real name) was operated at Masanga Hospital in January 2022

  • IMG-20220106-WA0006

    Hernia operations are life changing and life saving - please support our work so we can bring more joy and care to children

  • 9 Year old hernia patient - 1 week after the operation

    Photo of Aminata's (not real name) hernia operation wound healing after two weeks. How many more Aminatas are there out there that need hernia operations.. ? Lets help them, lets make it better !

  • 9 Year old hernia patient - 3 weeks after the operation

    Photo of Aminata's (not real name) hernia operation wound healing after three weeks. How many more Aminatas are there out there that need hernia operations.. ? Lets help them, lets make it better !

  • IMG-20220119-WA0002

    Umbilical hernias are common in young children and adults too. Please help us to fund more operations, thank you !

  • IMG-20220111-WA0014

    Umbilical hernias are common in young children and adults too. Please help us to fund more operations, thank you !

  • IMG-20220118-WA0003

    Umbilical hernias are common in young children and adults too. Please help us to fund more operations, thank you !

  • IMG-20220118-WA0006

    Umbilical hernias are common in young children and adults too. Please help us to fund more operations, thank you !

  • Hernia1 September 2022

    Masanga Hospital - Hernia patients - August 2022

  • Hernia2 September 2022

    September 2022 - Masanga Hospital - Hernia Patients

  • July 2023 Holy Spirit Hospital Photo 4

    Thank you for your support and for saving and changing lives - hernia operations change and save lives 100%

  • July 2023 Masanga Photo 1

    July 2023 - we funded operations for 20 patients at Holy Spirit Hospital

  • Masanga Patients March 2023

    Masanga Hospital - Hernia Patients - March 2023

  • July 2023 Holy Spirit Hospital Photo 1

    July 2023 - we funded operations for 20 patients at Holy Spirit Hospital (batch 1)

  • July 2023 Holy Spirit Hospital Photo 2

    July 2023 - we funded operations for 20 patients at Holy Spirit Hospital (batch 2)

  • July 2023 Holy Spirit Hospital Photo 3

    July 2023 - we funded operations for 20 patients at Holy Spirit Hospital (batch 3)

Hernia Operations

Hernia Operations

We sponsored our first ever umbilical operation for a child in January 2022 and the operation was carried out at Masanga Hospital, it was a success !

Masanga Hospital – Healthcare, Education, Research

We have funded 170+ hernia operations since January 2022 

HOSPITAL PARTNERSHIPS
We have funded operations at the following hospitals:

Masanga Hopsital
ADRA Hospital, Waterloo
Holy Spirit Hospital, Makeni
Kenema Government Hospital

Umbilical hernias are very common in Sierra Leone and are mainly due to low birth weight and premature births. Umbilical hernia operations are relatively simple procedures which have a huge impact on patients’ lives.

Children’s hernias go untreated due to lack of family income and they worsen with time becoming unsightly, uncomfortable and dangerous to the child’s health (part of the intestine protrudes through the wall of the cavity around the umbilicus).

NHS UK Information on umbilical hernia operations:
Umbilical hernia repair – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

In this case the girl who had the sponsored operation was a 9 year old girl from Regent, her name is not real but her case is very real indeed like so many others who suffer needlessly. Below you can see the “before” and “after” photos.

9 Year old hernia patient - before the operation

Operations only cost £120 – (yes only £120 !!!) please consider setting up a monthly standing order so that we can fund more life changing and life saving operations ! People are too poor to pay for such operations and children often have to suffer the consequences of these uncomfortable and potentially dangerous hernias, operating and removing an hernia is life changing,,,, leaving them as they are are life threatening.

We have many children from the Regent area that need urgent umbilical hernia operations and we need your help to fund these !!

Parents cannot fund them and some of the children involved are orphans.

Hernia Operations (£120 each)

Please don’t wait for others to do it, “action turns hope into reality”

See below proof of what positive action and regular £££ support does……………

Our first ever sponsored operation took place at Masanga Hospital

Our first ever sponsored operation took place at Masanga Hospital

 

We have partnered with Masanga Hospital to bring more joy and improve lives for needy children - please continue to support our work ! Thank you !

We have partnered with Masanga Hospital to bring more joy and improve lives for needy children – please continue to support our work ! Thank you !

Photo of Aminata's (not real name) hernia operation wound healing nicely after two weeks. How many more Aminatas are there out there that need hernia operations.. ? Lets help them, lets make it better !

Photo of Aminata’s (not real name) hernia operation wound healing nicely after two weeks. How many more Aminatas are there out there that need hernia operations.. ? Lets help them, lets make it better !

THANK YOU – want to make a difference… ? YOU CAN

Please don’t wait for others to do it, “action turns hope into reality”

Action4schools-Sierra Leone
NatWest Bank, GIBRALTAR
Account 48084352 – 
Sort Code 60-60-60

We will turn your financial support into real, positive change, 100% guaranteed – scroll up for proof !

A group of 13 patients were discharged from Masanga Hospital on the 5th September from Masanga Hospital after successful hernia operations ! Thank you for your support ! You are changing and saving lives !

A group of 13 patients were discharged from Masanga Hospital on the 5th September from Masanga Hospital after successful hernia operations ! Thank you for your support ! You are changing and saving lives !