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Iʼve raised £1,960 to build the first temporal bone lab in Mekelle, Ethiopia
- London, United Kingdom
- Funded on Saturday, 10th November 2018
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Global ENT Outreach prevents avoidable deafness and death from ear disease in the developing world.
With your help, we can help the world hear again
We are a non-profit organisation committed to creating sustainable improvements to the medical and surgical care of people with ear disease worldwide. We do this by training local doctors to provide high quality medical and surgical care to their patients.
Of Ethiopia’s 104 million inhabitants, almost 80% live in rural communities and have poor access to health care, including Ear, Nose & Throat surgery. Currently, there are 23 fully-trained ENT doctors (a ratio of 1: 4.5 million). In contrast, the UK has approximately one ENT surgeon per 100 000 population.
We have an active outreach mission at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia. Training ear surgeons requires specialist equipment and dissection laboratories. Our aim is to build the first temporal bone laboratory in the region, which is essential to train local surgeons to treat ear disease. To do this, we need your help to fund equipment (microscopes, drills, surgical instruments) and transport to Mekelle.
Every penny you donate goes to improving the care of patients with ear disease in Ethiopia.
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- 7 years ago
Misha Verkerk
7 years agoWe’re over £1000! Thanks so much to everyone for their generosity! We can now freight the microscopes and drills to Ethiopia! Only a little more and we will have enough to finish the lab in time for this year’s missions.
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- 7 years ago
Misha Verkerk
7 years agoWe’re more than a quarter there! Thanks for all your generous donations
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62
Christine Scarsbrook
Jun 11, 2018
Well done! And a great cause 🙂
£10.00
Luke Andrews
Jun 10, 2018
Well done!
£20.00
Anam Anzak
Jun 7, 2018
Great work Mish and team! x
£10.00
David Bargiela
Jun 6, 2018
It's about TIME we got this TEMPORAL bone lab up and running. Brilliant work.
£10.00
Hannah Hartley
Jun 5, 2018
Well done guys! Incredible cause!
£20.00
Eleanor Cram
Jun 2, 2018
Well done lads!!
£20.00
David Frazier
May 29, 2018
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Misha Verkerk
London, United Kingdom
Dr Verkerk is a Specialty Registrar in ENT Surgery in London and UK Representative for Global ENT Outreach. He co-ordinates outreach missions to Ethiopia and Ukraine.