{"id":10024110,"date":"2024-04-18T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/uncategorized\/dr-samater-from-ethiopia-is-treating-cleft-patients-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:42:57","slug":"dr-samater-from-ethiopia-is-treating-cleft-patients-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/from-our-projects\/dr-samater-from-ethiopia-is-treating-cleft-patients-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Samater from Ethiopia is treating cleft patients in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When developing our project to treat children with cleft lip and palate <\/a>in Somalia and Ethiopia<\/a>, our plan from the start was to build a local team so that qualified help was available to local patients at any time and without language barriers. Among making the project accessible for patients and more simple organizationally, we also save on travel costs for foreign teams, which means more money is available for directly providing surgeries and eventually other cleft therapies, meaning that more patients are able to receive the vital care they need.<\/p>\n\n

This plan is now bearing fruit: Dr. Samater from Jijiga in Ethiopia has completed his training as a cleft surgeon and has now started providing cleft care at his hospital. From now on it will be available as a permanent contact point for patients on site. Another colleague of his will also receive the necessary specialist training and thus broaden the team’s ability to provide these vital medical services to local patients even further. Travelling from Jijiga to our second location in the region in Garowe, Somalia is relatively uncomplicated, so that the two surgeons can also offer help there relatively easily – a huge step forward in the development of the project and of course for the cleft patients in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n\n

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