- Request received24/05/2024
- Checked & confirmed19/12/2024
- Fundraising19/12/2024
- Treatment provided27/12/2024
- Invoice paid27/12/2024
- Case closed31/01/2025
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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Praise B., 2
Report publishedInfections
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$90
About infections
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli while Amoebiasis, or amoebic dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by a parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica.
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Bokoli Subcounty Hospital
Bokoli Sub-County Hospital, Sikata - Kimilili Rd, Bokoli
Background
Praise lives with his parents and 5 siblings. He is a jovial boy who likes playing with toys. His parents would like him to be a doctor in future, but they also say that he will have the right to choose what he would like to be once he grows up. Praise's mother is a hawker and his father works as a small scale farmer. They rely on small scale farm input to sustain there family. Praise presented to the hospital with a cough and abdominal pain for the past 2 days. he also had bouts of diarrhoea and occasional vomiting after oral intake. Once in a while he was able to retain the meals he had taken. He was brought to the hospital, reviewed by the doctor after which he was taken to the laboratory for blood and stool samples to be taken to aid in diagnosis.
Medical history
Praise presented with cough, abdominal pain for the first 2 days also had diarrhea occasionally vomiting after oral intake but at a time of admission was able to retain the food that he has eaten. Praise was sent for laboratory test after examination and was diagnosed with pneumonia and amoebiasis. on his discharge he was stable and happy for services given by Helpster Charity and Bokoli sub county hospital team
Prognosis
praise had pneumonia and amoebiasis that was treated by our able doctors and if praise's condition could have left untreated it could have resulted to Severe colitis, colonic perforation, anemia ,Impaired breathing: trouble getting enough oxygen; ventilator may be required, Acute respiratory distress syndrome: severe form of respiratory infection,
