- Request received01/09/2025
- Checked & confirmed17/09/2025
- Fundraising17/09/2025
- Treatment provided04/12/2025
- Invoice paid05/12/2025
- Case closed15/02/2026
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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Lavender R., 1
Report publishedPulmonology
27
$125
About pulmonology
Severe pneumonia is a serious lung infection causing significant respiratory distress, requiring hospitalization and potentially intensive care, often involving oxygen therapy, intravenous fluids, and sometimes a ventilator. 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
Thank you for saving this life!
100%
$125 raised of $125
Siaya County Referral Hospital
Along siaya- Rangala road
Background
Lavender is a two-month-old baby and the only child of a young high school graduate. She lives in a two-room mud house with her mother, great-grandmother, two uncles, and three aunts. At night, the uncles sleep in the kitchen area, while her mother, aunts, and great-grandmother share the living room. Lavender’s mother and grandmother are unemployed and has always depended on her great-grandmother, who is a peasant farmer but has recently developed partial blindness. One Wednesday evening, Lavender developed a cough and began struggling to breathe. She vomited everything after breastfeeding. Later that night, her hands and feet became extremely cold. By the following morning, she was unable to breastfeed, prompting her mother to rush her to the hospital.
Medical history
Lavender was brought to the hospital with a history of coughing, vomiting, and difficulty in breathing. She was diagnosed with severe pneumonia and malaria. This warranted admission, where she stayed and was administered zinc sulfate, gentamicin, ORS, and other drugs. She was tolerant of the drugs given, and eventually she got well. A call to the mother revealed that Lavender was recovered and was breastfeeding very well.
Prognosis
Lavender was promptly diagnosed with severe pneumonia and severe malaria. With the initiation of appropriate treatment, her condition has significantly improved, and her prognosis is good.
