News & Events

Staff at the Nuffield private hospital in Plymouth raised over £4000 to support Operation Hernia. The money was raised through a staff charity ball, which saw donations reach £2,994, and the remainder was put in by staff and patients at the hospital.

Ria Cox (deputy finance manager, Nuffield Health Plymouth) presented a cheque for £4674 to Raj Dhumale, Brian Dixon and Chris Oppong, Board members of Operation Hernia.

Drs Flavio Malcher & Luis Soares organised a Symposium, Workshop and operations for 120 patients in Maranhao State for an Operation Hernia team in March.

Chris Oppong lead a joint UK-German team with Ralph Lorenz to Remera hospital, Rwanda in February. They were received by a representative of the Minister of Health, the Mayor and the Medical Director of the hospital. 

Farafenni hospital (one of only 3 in Gambia) has had no surgeon for 3 years. Operation Hernia operated on children that had waited up to 5 years to have an inguinal hernia repair.

The people of this hospital will never forget your team for the good work, cordial working relationship and generosity we experienced from you within a short period of one week which we worked together. The community will ever remember the visit of 28^th October – 3^rd November, 2012, mostly the 123 patients you operated