Mangu – Nigeria

The Faridpur foundation supports the medical work (the Plastic Surgery Camps) of plastic surgeon Cees Spronk and his team in the city of Mangu. They operate upon children and adults with severe burns and split lips. Interplast Holland finances and organises the Plastic Surgery Camps, which take place twice a year. Once a year Dr. Arend van de Venis goes to Mangu to operate upon children with deformities to their legs. All this work is done for the poor in this region.

Cocin-hospital in Mangu

From 1950 until her retirement in 1973 dr. Priestman, a British leprosy doctor was in charge of a leprosy centre in Mangu in Middle Nigeria. For many people treatment in those days was for the rest of their life, as the development of new medicines was still in its infancy. In 1974 dr. Cees Spronk, then a leprosy doctor took the lead, supported by the Dutch Leprosy foundation.

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Leprosy Care

In 1950 the Sudan United Mission, an English protestant missionary organisation, founded the Mongu Leprosy Settlement on the Central Plateau in Nigeria,consisting of a fewhospital and outpatients buildings amidst three villages, where contagious patients were treated in isolation until they … Continue reading

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The Burns Centre in Mangu

In Nigeria much of the cooking is done on open fire. As a consequence many people suffer from burn injuries. Due to living a long distance from medical centres, lacking knowledge of how to treat burn wounds and not being able to afford medical treatment, patients suffer from severe scarring caused by burn wounds. Much of the mutilation could be prevented through education programmes and first aid treatment. This is why the Faridpur Foundation founded a Burn Centre.

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Plastic Surgery Camps

In 2005 Cees Spronk and a medical team visited Mangu to perform operations. From 2006 Cees Spronk and a medical team have gone there twice a year to do so.

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Sabon Layi School with boarding for the challenged in Mangu

The Sabon Layi School was founded in 1954 to provide education at the leprosy centre in Mangu (founded in 1950). People who suffered from leprosy were excluded from society and treated and cared for in separate colonies. Mr. Joel Gowon, a former patient, founded the school for the children suffering from leprosy.  A few years later he was joined by Mr. Filibbus, who himself was receiving treatment in Mangu.

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Plastic Surgery Camp March 2018 (Nigeria)

There’s much to do for us. In all nearby churches and mosques the medical mission was advertised by Kefas, who describes himself as a nurse but in fact runs the entire hospital. The result of that work is waiting for us on Monday outside the outpatientsdepartment. That day we see a great variety of patients and fortunately we can schedule most of them foran operation in the next two weeks.

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Plastic Surgery Camp October 2017 (Nigeria)

So many serious burns. Children and adults falling into open fires or having boiling water over them. So much misery! In the consultation room there is a poster about the prevention-programme. Only twenty metersaway we see relatives of hospitalisedpatients cooking their meals on open fires onthe hospital site, while young children are walking between these fires.

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