Hungarian neurosurgeon mission in Malawi

The African Hungarian Union has once again sent out their medical missionaries to Malawi. The 19th mission lasts from October 26 until November 12, during which Hungarian neurologists will help locals get better near their homes, Világszám reports.

The African Hungarian Union usually sends out two missionary groups each year to those small African communities that are in great need of help. The primary goal is to provide medical and humanitarian aid to these deprived villages, but the Union also strives to spread knowledge and information about them in Hungary – it is important to learn about such communities, as what happens in Africa affects Europe, too.

18 missions have been carried out since 2009, over 40 Hungarian medical experts took part, and almost 40 thousand patients were treated.

It must be noted that the Hungarian medics are not getting paid for participating in these missions and they are using their own holiday leaves. All expenses are covered through donations and sponsors by the AHU.

Power outages are almost an everyday phenomenon in Southeast Africa, so it is nearly a miracle that patients can be operated on. However, this is not the only problem the Hungarian missionaries are facing in Malawi: one neurosurgeon would have to treat roughly 18 million people, and there is only one operating room. In addition, the Hungarian medics will have to train the local medical staff.