- Request received13/05/2025
- Checked & confirmed25/05/2025
- Fundraising25/05/2025
- Treatment provided07/07/2025
- Invoice paid21/07/2025
- Case closed
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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Travis C., 2
Report publishedInfections
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$60
About infections
Convulsion is a sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body, caused by involuntary contraction of muscles and associated especially with brain disorders such as epilepsy, the presence of certain toxins or other agents in the blood, or fever in children. Septicemia is bacteria in the blood (bacteremia) that often occurs with severe infections. Also called sepsis, septicemia is a serious, life-threatening response to an infection that may get worse very quickly. Severe malaria, a life-threatening complication of malaria infection, is characterized by organ dysfunction, including impaired consciousness, seizures, circulatory collapse, and respiratory distress. Other key features include severe anemia, metabolic acidosis, acute kidney injury, and abnormal bleeding or disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Early and aggressive treatment is crucial for survival.
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$60 raised of $60
Siaya County Referral Hospital
Along siaya- Rangala road
Background
Travis is the youngest of three in a family consisting of his single mother and an older sibling. After separating from their father, the family now lives in a single-roomed house. His mother describes Travis as an energetic and headstrong child who is constantly active and often gets into minor fights with his brother—so much so that one might mistake him for the older sibling. His favorite meal is rice with stewed Irish potatoes. Recently, Travis developed a cold that lasted a few days, accompanied by a persistent fever. His mother initially treated him with over-the-counter cold medicine, assuming the fever was related. When the fever didn’t go down, she gave him painkillers, hoping it would help. However, that night, Travis began convulsing. Alarmed, his mother sought help from a neighbor with a motorcycle, and they rushed him to the hospital. Upon arrival, he was attended to in the emergency unit, stabilized, and then admitted to the ward for further treatment.
Medical history
Travis was brought to the hospital while convulsing. Initially he had had a flu and a fever which later got worse. He was diagnosed with severe malaria. upper tract infection and septicemia. His condition warranted admission, whereupon he was admitted for a number of days. He was administered IV Artesunate as per the treatment sheet for his malaria. He was also given paracetamol, a painkiller, and put on antibiotics for the septicemia. The patient responded well to the medication and was duly discharged on orals to take at home. A visit by the volunteer to their home revealed that Travis was okay and had gone back to his normal life.
Prognosis
Patient presented to the emergency with fever, convulsions and lethargic. Prompt management was initiated and the child stabilised, patient was admitted for further management and is set to make a full recovery, any delay would have resulted in death. Severe malaria can progress to a fatal outcome rapidly, so its treatment should be initiated as soon as possible. Patients with severe malaria, regardless of infecting species, should be treated with intravenous (IV) artesunate.
