For most of the fifteen, the surgery they needed had been postponed for years — not for lack of a diagnosis, but for lack of money. This month, the waiting ended.
A hernia that made farm work impossible. A cataract that had slowly stolen a grandmother’s sight. A child’s condition that grew more complicated with every year it went untreated. Each of the fifteen patients had lived with a treatable condition — some for over a decade — because the cost of surgery was simply out of reach.
How the surgical fund works
The foundation’s surgical fund covers the full cost of approved procedures: surgeon and theatre fees, hospital stay, medicines and post-operative follow-up. For patients travelling from remote villages, the fund also covers transport and accommodation for a guardian — because a surgery a patient can’t reach is no surgery at all.
Cases are identified through our partner health facilities and community health workers, then reviewed and approved by the medical team based on urgency and impact.
“I had stopped praying for the operation. I was only praying to manage the pain.”
— Surgical fund patient
All fifteen, successful
Every one of the fifteen operations was completed successfully, and all patients have been discharged into follow-up care. The farmer is back in his field. The grandmother can see her grandchildren. The child will grow up without the complication that was quietly narrowing his future.