21. April 2024
Golden Life Hospital in Bamako, Mali from 06.04.2023 to 12.04.2023. We have been working with the "New Face" organization and the Golden Life Hospital in Bamako, Mali, for eight years now. Once again this year, a team was dedicated to reconstructive surgery. Most of the patients were children suffering from scar contractures on their hands, facial noma or congenital defects. However, breast reconstructions after breast cancer were also performed, a project that Interplast Switzerland is...
14. February 2024
St Joseph Hospital in Koforidua in January 2024 After a four-year forced break due to the pandemic, Interplast Switzerland was able to carry out its second mission in Ghana. A motivated team of specialists consisting of three hand surgeons, an anaesthesia team, two technical operating assistants (TOA), two occupational therapists and a cook travelled to Koforidua, three hours' drive from Accra, with great excitement about what to expect after four years of mission interruption. Find out more...
16. November 2023
Clinic Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédogo from 14.10.2023 to 04.11.2023. Interplast Switzerland's major commitment over a total of three weeks with three different teams: an organizational tour de force and an absolute surgical success. With three different focal points - burn, breast and hand surgery - it was possible to maintain efficient surgical operations throughout the entire period. In cooperation with the local staff, we were able to provide numerous patients with the best possible care...
12. July 2023
St. Francis Hospital Mutolere, Kisoro, Uganda from 22.06.2023 to 30.06.2023. The first Interplast Switzerland mission in Kisoro, Uganda was a complete success. After initial contact and exploration last year, a trial deployment in a new area was successfully completed. We are looking forward to further cooperation in order to improve the quality of life of patients in this area with our interventions in the future. Learn all about the mission as well as Interplast Switzerland's next plans in...
17. March 2023
Clinic Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédogo from 03.03.2023 to 12.03.2023. Directly following the mission in Bamako, Mali, an Interplast Switzerland mission took place in Léo, Burkina Faso. In the well-known, well-equipped operating room of the Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédogo clinic, mainly keloids, scar contractures and malformations were operated on. Read more in the mission report.
17. March 2023
Golden Life Hospital in Bamako, Mali from 24.02.2023 to 03.03.2023. At the beginning of 2023, another mission of Interplast Switzerland took place in Bamako, Mali. In order to raise awareness about breast cancer, Interplast started the project to establish a breast center in the region and provide patients with reconstructive breast surgery. But like any new project in such an area, progress is slow. Therefore, the team also worked on the classic plastic reconstruction problems in the area,...
21. April 2022
Klinik Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédogo from 07.04.2022 to 14.04.2022. Interplast-Switzerland was again on a mission. It might have already become routine, one would think, since a large number of missions have already been organized by us in recent years. But nevertheless it is always exciting, uncertain, emotional and unpredictable to plan, execute and follow up such a mission. The focus in this mission was breast reconstruction in women with breast cancer. Learn more about the last mission...
16. February 2022
Golden Life Hospital in Bamako, Mali from 05.02.2022 to 12.02.2022. Interplast-Switzerland starts the new year with another mission in Bamako, Mali. At the Golden Life Hospital, with the cooperation of Association New Face, the team of Dr. med. V. Wedler is working in the operating room on numerous scar contractures, breast reconstructions and reconstructions in noma patients.
12. December 2021
Mission in the "Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédago" clinic in Léo Burkina Faso from 25 November to 04 December 2021 A mission was planned in Persis, Ouahigouya. But there were COVID 19 cases in Persis and therefore the health department in the clinic had quarantined the operating area for 14 days. This would still have been a solvable problem, but unfortunately there were attacks again very close to Ouahigouya, and we were advised not to come for security reasons. So we looked for solutions to...
07. December 2021
Mission in the "Centre Medico-Chirurgical Sédago" clinic in Léo Burkina Faso from 1 October to 10 October 2021. Finally it was possible to plan a mission in Burkina Faso again. After prolonged increased turbulence and COVID-19 uncertainties, a small team was able to test the new situation and the new installations of the clinic in Léo, in the south of Burkina Faso.