- Request received24/04/2024
- Checked & confirmed13/05/2024
- Fundraising13/05/2024
- Treatment provided31/05/2024
- Invoice paid05/06/2024
- Case closed02/08/2024
Why is treatment sometimes done earlier than the payment?
When a case is urgent and vital, hospitals often proceed with delivering medical care right away to save a life, even before the finalisation of admission procedures. Usually, when this happens, hospitals put the bill on our credit until the funds are transferred to their accounts. That’s why the chronology can sometimes be in disorder.
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Mark M., 2
Report publishedInfections
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$65
About infections
Pneumonia develops when the defensive mechanisms within the lung become overwhelmed by a pathogen which has been either inhaled or aspirated. It is associated with a high mortality rate and significant morbidity. Severe pneumonia is frequently a multisystem disease and patients will often present with multiple organ failure.
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NeoRao Community Medical Clinic
Daraja Mbili
Background
Mark is a two-year-old cheerful boy who lives with his siblings. His mother, Emily, is a single parent facing financial struggles. Mark eagerly awaits the day he can start school. However, he's been experiencing a cough, shortness of breath, and a runny nose for the past few days. The day before being admitted to the hospital, he also developed a fever. Despite his mother administering paracetamol syrup, his condition worsened, prompting an urgent trip to the hospital.
Medical history
Mark had a cough, shortness of breath running nose, and hotness of the body and the mother had tried giving him some home remedies and over the counter medication but the condition became worse. Mark's mother brought him to the hospital where he received intravenous medication and the child improved. Within 3 days of the medication given at the hospital, there was marked improvement and he was discharged from the hospital to continue with oral medication at home.
Prognosis
Pneumonia should be treated with antibiotics. If left untreated, pneumonia may lead to the permanent lung damage, respiratory failure, septicaemia (infection entering blood stream and causing sepsis), pleural effusion (accumulation of fluid in the space between the lung and chest wall, which can make breathing difficult), and other life-threatening complications.
