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2013 KCB Foundation Report (Continued)<br />
cess to health services. Community<br />
support in this area in<br />
2013 included:<br />
Humanitarian<br />
Intervention<br />
• Heart operations and<br />
catheterization for 15<br />
children and rheumatic<br />
heart disease screening<br />
• Funding of kidney Investment: KShs. 16,132,805 for 10,000 children<br />
transplants for 10 children 1. Over 160 orphanages and care through the partnership<br />
centres receive donations<br />
in Kenya. The first set of<br />
with Mater Hospital in<br />
2. 30 goats and 15 pigs for two<br />
four were operated on in<br />
Kenya<br />
community groups in Rwanda<br />
August at the Kenyatta<br />
National Hospital. Their<br />
3. Relief items for over 1000<br />
displaced persons in the South • In Burundi, the refurbishment<br />
operations were the first Sudan conflict<br />
of wards at the<br />
ever successful pediatric<br />
Prince Regent Charles<br />
kidney transplants to be<br />
conducted in Kenya thus putting Kenya on the<br />
medical map<br />
Hospital was completed<br />
as was the maternity ward at the Juba Military<br />
Hospital in South Sudan<br />
• The renal units of Kakamega PGH, Coast PGH<br />
and Kisii PGH received dialysis machines. These<br />
bring the total number of dialysis machines donated<br />
over two years to nine and it is hoped that<br />
this equipment will help ease the burden for patients<br />
who require dialysis and have in the past<br />
required to travel vast distances in order to get<br />
treatment.<br />
•<br />
•<br />
In Tanzania, six hospitals in Mwanza, Moshi,<br />
Arusha, Daresalaam, Zanzibar and Morogoro<br />
received equipment for the pediatric and maternal<br />
wards.<br />
In Uganda, 16 hospitals received baby incubators<br />
as part of the support for the maternal health project<br />
and the continued partnership with<br />
AMREF on the cleft lip repair has seen<br />
over 100 patients receive the corrective<br />
surgeries<br />
Humanitarian Intervention<br />
The Foundation continues to lend<br />
a hand to the less fortunate in the<br />
community as well as respond to<br />
disasters as required.<br />
One of the ten beneficiaries of the first ever successful paediatric kidney transplants to be<br />
conducted in Kenya sponsored by KCB Foundation in partnership with the Kenyatta National<br />
Hospital.<br />
• Donation of relief items for over<br />
1000 displaced persons in the South<br />
Sudan conflict<br />
27 42<br />
K C B 2 0 1 3 A n n u a l R e p o r t a n d F i n a n c i a l S t a t e m e n t s
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