What We Do
Our Profile
Safe Surgical Aid is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered with the NGO board of Kenya, effectively from 24th February 2021.
It is the brainchild of young doctors and other professionals brought together by the need to address myriad of health challenges facing communities living in areas that have no access to essential surgical and non-surgical health care services.
Breaking It Down
Healthy, productive and globally competitive communities.
To provide a responsive and sustainable healthcare system for communities that have no access to basic healthcare in the horn of Africa.
Professionalism, accountability, integrity and collaboration.
Safe, quality and accessible surgical care for the less privilidged Kenyans.
Principle Objectives
- To raise, mobilize funds and other resources for the provision of safe and responsive surgical care to poor and inaccessible areas in Kenya.
- Provide health education and awareness on the importance of surgical needs for surgically amenable conditions.
- To act as a referral organisation for further specialised surgical care.
- To peridiocally screen patients for surgically treatable conditions.
Our Focus Areas
Surgeries
Provision of Safe Surgical programs among the most vulnerable and marginalized communities that have no access to surgical care. This includes:
- Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgeries
- Eye Surgeries (mainly cataracts)
- Urological and Gynaecological Surgeries
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
New Born Healthcare
Provision of new-born health services such as imunization, nutrition and corrective surgeries.
Maternal Healthcare
Provision of maternal surgical healthcare mainly repairs of recto-vaginal or vesico-vaginal fistulas, excision of uterine lesions and other gynaecological conditions.
Mental Health Awareness
Conduct mental health awareness, patient-tailored management plan and collaborations with mental health institutions in order to build capacity among mental health workers.
Immunization
Immunization programs for both children and adults against preventable diseases such as Polio, Tetanus, Measles as well as other emerging illnesses that are vaccine preventable such as Malaria and HPV vaccines.
Managing Communicable Diseases
Diagnosis and focused management of
communicable diseases such as TB as well as life style related diseases such Diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases.
Malaria Management
Malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment programs in the endemic regions.
Health Advocacy
Advocacy and awareness campaigns to educate communities on local solutions for life-style illnesses, detrimental cultural practices and sustainable community based healthcare systems.
Training
Training and capacity building of the healthcare workers through seminars, symposium, short and long courses.
Water and Sanitation
Strengthening safe water and sanitation systems around the marginalised communities. Also we view resilient water security and sanitation as a critical component of a healthy society.
Organisation Analysis
- Community presence
- Technical expertise and passion driven healthcare workers
- Social capital networks and other relationsips
- Inadequate financial and logistical resources.
- Difficult context of work – rural areas, refugee camps.
- Infrastructural challenges in terms of facilities and the equipment necessary in accomplishing our desired target.
- Lack of safe and responsive surgical care in rural Kenya.
- Lack of infrastructural and personnel capacity in rural health care institutions.
- Multi-sectoral collaboration with like-minded organizations that are involved in healthcare services provision.
- Improved healthcare literacy through public health education.
- Better equipped healthcare institutions among the marginalized communities through continous advocacy and training.
- Accessible and safe surgical care in marginalized areas.
Help Us Make A Difference
We rely on partners and generous donors to achieve our organizational goals. Kindly help us make a difference by donating to our cause. Thank you in advance.