Ethiopian Surgical Camps a Win for Surgeons and Patients

摘要

Not-for-profit Grar-bet Eye and Ear Hospital in Buta-jira, Ethiopia, offers free surgical services to patients with ear disease. This hospital is fully funded through donations to its nongovernmental organization, Grarbet Tehad-iso Mahber. For many years, the Grarbet Eye and Ear Hospital focused on medical and surgical treatment of eye disease. Patients with ear problems received medical care but only started to receive surgical intervention in the last seven years. In that same timeframe, an ear surgeon from the capital city has attended to local patients one weekend a month, and surgical teams from countries such as Spain, Japan, or the United States have come for a total of one week a year on average.