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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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    Story

    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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    • Misha Verkerk7 years ago
      Misha Verkerk

      Misha Verkerk

      7 years ago
      Update from the Page owner

      We’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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    • Misha Verkerk7 years ago
      Misha Verkerk

      Misha Verkerk

      7 years ago
      Update from the Page owner

      We’re more than a quarter there! Thanks for all your generous donations

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    • Misha Verkerk7 years ago
      Misha Verkerk

      Misha Verkerk

      7 years ago
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    7 years ago

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    Supporters

    62

    • Christine Scarsbrook

      Christine Scarsbrook

      Jun 11, 2018

      Well done! And a great cause 🙂

      £10.00

    • Luke Andrews

      Luke Andrews

      Jun 10, 2018

      Well done!

      £20.00

    • Anam Anzak

      Anam Anzak

      Jun 7, 2018

      Great work Mish and team! x

      £10.00

    • David Bargiela

      David Bargiela

      Jun 6, 2018

      It's about TIME we got this TEMPORAL bone lab up and running. Brilliant work.

      £10.00

    • Hannah Hartley

      Hannah Hartley

      Jun 5, 2018

      Well done guys! Incredible cause!

      £20.00

    • Eleanor Cram

      Eleanor Cram

      Jun 2, 2018

      Well done lads!!

      £20.00

    • David Frazier

      David Frazier

      May 29, 2018

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    Misha Verkerk

    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.

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