Hungarian doctors in Malawi wrestling with water outage and swallowed coins
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The 19th medical missionaries of the African-Hungarian Union have set out to Malawi last Monday, have arrived on Tuesday and began performing surgeries early in the morning on Wednesday. Globoport guides us through their first days in Africa.
The missionaries of the African-Hungarian Union (AHU) are for the fourth time surgeons, and are again otorhinolaryngologists, accompanied by an anaesthetist. The team was made up of five doctors originally, but as one of them got sick, only four of them set out to Malawi. The team includes Dr László Paput head of the otorhinolaryngologic department at the Flór Ferenc hospital in Pest county, Dr Csaba Loibl, professor assistant at the University of Pécs, Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Therapy, Dr Nelli Nepp and Dr Éva Orosz specialist candidates at the otorhinolaryngologic clinic of the University of Pécs.
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AHU has sent 17 missions in the past years to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Madagascar, Uganda, Malawi and Guinea, where the medics helped over 40 thousand patients. In these regions, there is a serious lack of professional medics, for example,
Malawi is the same in size as Hungary, populated by 20 million people, but there is only one otorhinolaryngologist for all residents.
This team is the fourth taking up the task of performing surgeries, this time focusing on the head- and neck surgeries and otorhinolaryngologic operations in Blantyre, where missionaries operated previously. The tougher cases are assigned to the Hungarian medics; they have already 80 patients in line, awaiting operation in the following two weeks. When they set out, only 50 patients were waiting for surgery.