- Request received25/05/2026
- Checked & confirmed29/07/2026
- FundraisingOngoing29/07/2026
- Treatment provided
- Invoice paid
- 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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Valentine C., 18
FundraisingUrgentInfections
27
$365
About infections
Severe malaria is a life-threatening complication of malaria, most commonly caused by Plasmodium falciparum. It can lead to organ failure, impaired blood flow, and death if not treated urgently with hospitalization and intravenous antimalarial medication. Severe anemia is a critically low hemoglobin level that reduces oxygen delivery to body tissues and may require blood transfusion. Abnormal uterine bleeding is uterine bleeding that differs from a normal menstrual cycle in timing, duration, or amount. Heavy per vaginam bleeding with large clots can rapidly worsen anemia and requires urgent evaluation and treatment.
Mt Elgon Subcounty Hospital
Kapsokwony-Kimilili road
Background
Valentine is an 18-year-old young woman from a humble rural family. She is respectful, responsible, and hardworking, and lives with her parents in a modest two-room mud-walled house with a rusted iron-sheet roof. Despite the financial challenges her family faces, she remains hopeful and dreams of becoming a successful businesswoman who can improve her family's living standards. Valentine was brought to the hospital by her mother after experiencing heavy vaginal bleeding with blood clots for two weeks. Her condition was accompanied by dizziness, severe headaches, lower abdominal pain, joint pains, and progressive body weakness that became markedly worse over the previous three days. As the bleeding persisted, she became increasingly pale, fatigued, and unable to carry out her normal daily activities. Following a thorough clinical assessment, laboratory tests, and an ultrasound examination, she was diagnosed with severe malaria and she also had severe anemia secondary to abnormal uterine bleeding. Owing to the seriousness of her condition, she was admitted for urgent treatment, close monitoring, blood investigations, and comprehensive medical management.
Medical history
Valentine brought to the facility by her mother with complains of; severe PV bleeding associated with dizziness, headache, abdominal pain, joint pain and general body weakness. On examination, laboratory and ultrasound, she was diagnosed with, severe malaria and severe anemia in abnormal uterine bleeding. She was admitted and given: blood transfusion, I.v silate , I.v Artesunate, I.v Cef and I.v Metronidazole. She responded positively to medication and discharged when stabilized and in good condition.
Prognosis
Valentine is an 18-year-old girl diagnosed with severe malaria, severe anemia, and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). Her condition is serious because malaria can destroy red blood cells, while prolonged uterine bleeding further worsens anemia, leading to weakness, dizziness, and increased risk of complications. She requires urgent medical treatment, including antimalarial medication, management of the bleeding, and correction of the anemia, which may include blood transfusion if necessary. With prompt and appropriate treatment, Valentine has a fair to good prognosis, and recovery is expected.
