Foundation for the Development of Orthopaedics in Africa (FDOA)

Purchase of medical materials to do orthopaedic surgery in burundi and shipment of these materials to a hospital in bujumbura for use by myself and by qualified local surgeons who have been trained in their use. Care of patients with conditions that can be helped with orthopaedic surgery. Teaching orthopaedic surgeons. Telescopic nailing of long bones in children with deformities due to rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta. Correction of severe genu valgum. Pelvic support osteotomy. Ilizarov bone transport for infected tibial non-union with bone loss. Negative pressure wound therapy.